What happened after Moses and Hebrews reached Canaan?

Answer 1

The Canaanites were never really destroyed. Archaeologists say that the mountainous hinterland, that would become Israel and Judah, was largely uninhabited in the last half of the second millennium BCE. The Hebrews seem to have occupied the region unopposed, in spite of the biblical account of great military victories. Although the Philistines, who arrived around the same time as the Hebrews, drove the Canaanites out of the rich coastal plains and foothills south of present-day Tel Aviv, the Canaanites continued to occupy the coastal region farther north. Present-day Palestinians look upon the Canaanites as their ancestors.

Answer 2

The Bible tells us that the Hebrews conquered the land of Canaan approximately 1400 BCE. By chance, the Amarna documents from Egypt tell us the political and social situation of Palestine just a few decades later. They tell of the Canaanite princes of each city state squabbling and in-fighting, each writing to their Egyptian overlord asking for support and sometimes military assistance against rival Canaanite cities. There is no evidence in these letters of a new power that had arrived on the scene and had dominated the Canaanite cities or was attempting to do so. The Amarna letters clearly demonstrate that Egypt continued to be the undisputed colonial power of Palestine and Syria. The only explanation is that the conquest of the land of the Canaanites did not really occur as described in the Bible.

Answer 3

Moses never reached the promised land, it was Joshua ,who lead the people thee.