Canaanite Idolatry, Judgment, and Remembered Covenant

The historical confession continues into the land: incomplete obedience, idolatry, child sacrifice, oppression, repeated deliverance, and finally God remembering His covenant in response to His people’s cry. The theology is neither cheap grace nor abandonment; judgment and compassion remain together. Christian readers can connect covenant mercy to the new covenant without erasing the Israelite history being confessed.