The Blogs: Let’s destroy the Canaanites again!

Let’s play a game today. I’m going to call this game “Let’s destroy the Canaanites!“

“Only in the cities of these peoples that YHWH your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as YHWH your God has commanded you.”

Here we go. The gematria of these verses (Deuteronomy 20:16-17) is:

מערי העמים יהוה אלהיך נחלה נשמה החתי והאמרי הכנעני והפרזי החוי והיבוסי יהוה אלהיך = 1790

Now take the names of those nations which you think God commanded the Israelites to destroy; The Hittites, and Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

החתי והאמרי הכנעני והפרזי החוי והיבוסי = 930

930 is the gate of the final Heh of the Name YHWH.

Now lets destroy these nations utterly! We shall subtract their total from the final total of the verses:

1790 – 930 = 860,
which is אלהים Elohim × 10.

Wasn’t that fun? 🙂

It’s always a mistake to read a book written with several layers of meaning embedded within it as an open text. The scribes didn’t write the Tanakh for moderns to read it as an open text. They wrote it for themselves and their children to decipher and ponder deeply on the nature of God and their responsibilities.