That answer would be...Judges!!
they had settled there for religious purposes
It was Abraham.The father of the Israel nation.
Proto-Canaanites were the first religious community in Jerusalem.After the Jebusites, the Israelites settled there under King David in 850 BCE.
Genesis 47 details Joseph's settlement of the Israelites in Egypt.
the phonenicians
Pope Francis unfortunately is following the lead of his predecessor and saying that the ordination of women is settled and will not be considered.
Indian merchants spread Hinduism to the Pacific and South East Asia in the first millennium. When the merchants settled in these regions, they brought priests who were instrumental in the spread of Hinduism.
AnswerThe Philistines were a former sea-faring people who settled the southern Levant around 1250 BCE. The early Greek name for the region was Palestine, a corruption of Philistine.
King Sargon settled Arabs of defeated desert tribes in the province of Samaria, the former kingdom of Israel, in 716 BCE.
People had lived in the area that became known as Israel for thousands of years before the time of the Israelites. Whether we accept the biblical story of the military conquest of Canaan or the historical account that they were actually dissident Canaanites who left the coastal cities and settled in the sparsely populated mountainous hinterland, they were following in the footsteps of those who were there before them.
The Israelites
Maybe you are referring the campaign slogan, "Fifty-four forty or fight". Polk settled for quite a bit less without doing any fighting at that point.