What did the Israelites do after they reach canaan?

Answer 1

A:According to the Book of Joshua, the first thing Joshua ordered done was to spy out the city of Jericho. Once the Israelites were all safely across the River Jordan, they then attacked Jericho, slaughtering every man, woman and child, save only Rahab, who had helped Joshua's spies. They then attached the city of Ai and once again committed genocide against the people.

A problem with this story is that there is no evidence anywhere in the Palestinian hinterland of a military invasion towards the end of the Bronze Age. Archaeologists say that Jericho had been abandoned around 1550 BCE and the city and its walls no longer existed at the time attributed to Joshua. The name of the next city, Ai, actually means 'a ruin', an extremely improbable name for a thriving city, but evidence that the settlement was already abandoned and a ruin when the first Hebrew people began arriving in the Canaanite hinterland. Most scholars now say that the Israelites were actually Canaanites who migrated peacefully from the region of the coastal cities into the hitherto sparsely populated Canaanite hinterland. When they arrived they did what any new arrivals would do - build houses and begin to farm.