boys came to duke it out on. >> it's the land that the israelites believed that god gave to them as the land that they were to inherit. the problem is, is that there were, already, people in canaan. the canaanites. according to the bible, god commands the israelites to kill every man, woman, and child there. what we would call, today, genocide. and so, you can see how, in a modern setting, that might be cause for contention between people who might say this wasn't your land, to begin with, in the first place. >> after conquering the lands of canaan, the israelites settle into 12 separate tribes. united by their shared belief in an early form of judaism. >> the 12 tribes were divided. there were huge rivalries and feuds between them. >> and it's during this period,