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[JONAH 2]

DETESTABLE THINGS--
"Among the Canaanites.--- Before Israel’s entry into Canaan, Jehovah made plain to them the practices and customs of the peoples of Canaan that were detestable to him, and these they were to detest. (Le 18:26-30)

Outstanding was their practice of idolatry. God said: “The graven images of their gods you should burn in the fire. You must not desire the silver and the gold upon them, nor indeed take it for yourself, for fear you may be ensnared by it; for it is a thing detestable [thoh·?avath'] to Jehovah your God. And you must not bring a detestable thing [thoh·?e·vah'] into your house and actually become a thing devoted to destruction like it. You should thoroughly loathe it and absolutely detest it [wetha·?ev' tetha·?aven'nu], because it is something devoted to destruction.” (De 7:25, 26)

Any Israelite guilty of making images for religious worship was to be accursed. (De 27:15) Regardless of the craftsmanship they reflected, such images were to be morally repugnant to God’s people.—Eze 7:20; compare Isa 44:18-20.

Other practices of the Canaanites to be detested by Israel were: spiritism with its seances, casting of spells, fortune-telling (De 18:9-12), offering children up in fire to their gods (De 12:31; Jer 32:35; 2Ki 16:3), incest, sodomy, and bestiality. (Le 18:6, 22-30; 20:13) Doubtless the morally repugnant practice of sodomy was the reason for the severity of the rule declaring the wearing of apparel of the opposite sex to be “detestable.” (De 22:5)
The Canaanites also practiced “sacred” prostitution by male and female temple prostitutes, but Jehovah prohibited the bringing of “the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog” into his house, “because they are something detestable.”—De 23:17, 18; 1Ki 14:24."

"God described the land that the Hittites and other associated nations occupied as “a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Ex 3:8) But these nations had become so corrupt that their presence on the land defiled it. (Le 18:25, 27)

Many are the warnings that God gave Israel as to the danger of association with them in their degraded, filthy practices. He lists many immoralities, forbidding the Israelites to engage in them, and then says: “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, because by all these things the nations [including the Hittites] whom I am sending out from before you have made themselves unclean.”—Le 18:1-30."

SCRIPTURES INSPIRED BOOK- VOLUME 2

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You missed the point Jonah.....no historian worth his salt talks about "God" is if "He" were real. As far as "destroying" goes....for all of Jehovah's huff and puff in the Bible....you know, making the mountains tremble, etc., it was the Jews who mostly got their asses kicked. The Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Romans...none were sceered nor impressed. The Jews and their "God" were inconsequential in the annals of history. So much for "all-powerful"....more like the Wizard of Oz....."be afraid, but if ya like me, I'll give you a lollipop....sucker".