There are many passages in the Bible that explicitly say that Yahweh, the God of the Bible, is merciful and loving. Here’s an example:
He is, our else He would have left us in our sin ad allowed Satan to have his way with us. One of these days all non believers will suddenly grasp what this means when Satan has his way for ever and ever with all non believers. Satan will trick many into not receiving the free gift of salvation, thus we doom ourselves unto living am eternal life outside of God's Presence, thus that is what hell means, an absence of God's love means they will dwell in hate, in lust, in greed, in debauchery, in foreboding fear forever, etc. etc.
But that’s far from the whole story. The Book of Joshua describes the conquest of the lands promised to the Israelites. Chapter 12 lists 31 kingdoms that were conquered under the leadership of Joshua. But those kingdoms weren’t just conquered. Every one of the kings of those kingdoms was killed. And not only that, but every one of the cities and towns over which those kings ruled was destroyed. And not only that, but all of the men, women, and children who lived in those cities and towns were killed:
There are no human beings who are not worthy of death, PERIOD, we have sin nature which can not come into God's presence, your error is "thinking" we are an innocent people. We inherited sin nature thus we are all worthy of death, you not understanding this does not change this factoid. God who FOREKNOWS ALL knew that these evil Canaanites who served Satan (Baal) would bring their false gods unto the Israelites, so they were ordered to kill them all, and by not doing so Israel did not inherit all of the land they were promised from the Euphrates river all the way to a river in Egypt. They turned unto false gods and served wickedness, thus by not listening unto God they brought forth evil into their midst, just like we have today, darkness always finds a way to destroy nations, that is what turning away from God in our schools has wrought, be proud of that sir, your ilk has brought us unto the point where there are now nor boundaries, no girls or boys but metrosexual confused weird children !! Your ilk has brought us divorce on demand, porn that destroys the soul.
So, just like Israel should have destroyed those wicked men in full, we as a nation should have never allowed wicked men in high places to destroy our nation, to bring it to a filthy Babylonian whore like state which she currently has become.
God himself actively participated in this slaughter:
Good, He was destroying evil, which would consume us all if given free reign, LOOK AROUND. And God will judge each man according to their hearts, so do not kid yourself, you also will be judged. And placed in hell all because you were to proud or deceived, by Satan, sadly. Trying to judge God is the most arrogant thing I have ever seen. Weird.
Furthermore, God ordered this slaughter:
Good, evil needs to be snuffed out, LOOK AROUND at how evil our Gov. has become. All men become Authoritarians in the end without God. All you socialists wind up like Hitler, Lenin or Mao.
Exactly why did God plan to slaughter all of those people? The answer is provided elsewhere in Deuteronomy:
TRY READING.........They were having sex with Animals, with their kids, with their nephews and nieces, with anyone and everyone, they were SACRIFICING their children into Molech, and that is what is happening now with Abortion, and most atheists see all this as OK because you guys have zero moral standards, you serve Satan and do not even understand that he is your god. Your heart, if you approve of Homosexuality, Abortion, Greed etc. etc. is the same hearts God sought to kill off, He now gives us Mercy, but that period will soon end, then Judgment will come, all of those who love evil will be separated unto themselves, whilst we who love God will live with God eternally, we will be able to do all things only people can imagine now, meanwhile the wicked will be under Satan, who will have his way with them eternally, unspeakable things, and since God created us in His image as ETERNAL BEINGS those people will be tortured by Satan eternally. And its your own choice, you guys love Satan and his wickedness.
So God didn’t want the Israelites to intermarry with the people of that region. But if God were actually merciful and loving, was there no other way to prevent the Israelites from intermarrying the indigenous people of the promised lands, or was slaughter the only possible option?
An omniscient God would have known that this problem would arise, and he could have planned for it at the time when he created the sun, the moon, the planets, the stars, the galaxies, and the earth itself. An omnipotent God could have created a force field around the entire region to prevent anyone else from entering. Then, when the Israelites arrived, he could have disabled the force field to let the Israelites enter a region that would have been fertile, lush, and unpopulated.
Abraham answered Gods call and made a Covenant (Agreement) with God. God FORCED NOTHING, you do not read nor comprehend well it seems. God FORESAW enough to get Jesus birthed, which broke Satan's stronghold.
God is just in killing us all because we all have evil, wicked hearts.