Again: what is a modern hermeneutic for these...???

Shalom!

Rowland Croucher

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Do you like these verses?

Deuteronomy 20:13 When the LORD your God delivers [a city] into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves...This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Do you like these verses?

Numbers 31:14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army-the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds-who returned from the battle. "Have you allowed all the women to live?" he asked them. "...Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."

Do you like these verses?

Judges 21:11 "This is what you are to do," [the Israelites] said. "Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin." They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan. Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon. So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared.

Well, did you like those verses? If you do, I know of lots more like them.

(A Netfriend)