... burned Jerusalem (Judg. 1:8), but neither the Judahites nor the Benjamites were able to establish complete control over the city (Josh. 15:63; Judg. 1:21). The Jebusites, a Canaanite people whom Israel should have destroyed (Deut. 7:1–2; 20:17), ... Scottish Independence by opposing King Edward I of England. The film won five Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional five. Gibson’s speech in the film about freedom, about warring against cruelty, has the ethos of David in the Old Testament. He says ...
... a narration of the panic that seized invading armies, and is reminiscent of the panic that Yahweh inflicted on the Canaanites during the conquest (Deut. 7:23; Josh. 2:8–11; 5:1; note her is not in the Hb. text). Yahweh’s destruction of the invading infantry is likened to the destruction of the ... not linguistically identical, to the Ugaritic expressions, “the recesses of Zaphon” (Ugaritic bṣrrt ṣpn, Gibson, Canaanite Myths, p. 46) and “the heights of Zaphon” (Ugaritic mrym ṣpn, p. 68).
