No they weren’t. They whooped 'em in the hill country, but got their asses kicked on the coastal plains, all because of those danged iron chariots. Couldn’t God have made a giant magnet or something?
But that’s the whole point of this thread. God was happy with the Israelis. They were following the “contract” as you put it, and they still got their asses kicked. The only thing I can conclude is that the God of the coastal plains was more powerful than Jehova.
So who was this coastal plains god, anyway? Shouldn’t we be worshiping him?