Numbers 31:15-17
De 2:34; 20:13,16-18; Jos 6:21; 8:25; 10:40; 11:14; 1Sa 15:3Ps 137:8,9; Jer 48:10; Eze 9:6 these caused.24:14; 25:1-3; Pr 23:27; Ec 7:26; 2Pe 2:15; Re 2:14in the matter.25:18; De 4:3; Jos 22:17and there.25:9 kill every male.The sword of war should spare women and children, as incapable of resisting; but the sword of justice knows no distinction, except that of guilty or not guilty, or more or less guilty. This was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the greatest criminals; and it may safely be said, that their lives were forfeited by their personal transgressions. With respect to the execution of the male infants, who cannot be supposed to have been guilty, God, the author and supporter of life, who has a right to dispose of it when and how he thinks proper, commanded it; and "shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Jud 21:11,12him. Heb. a male.Deuteronomy 2:34
utterly destroyed.7:2,26; 20:16-18; Le 27:28,29; Nu 21:2,3; Jos 7:11; 8:25,26; 9:24Jos 11:14; 1Sa 15:3,8,9the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city.Heb. every city of men, and women, and little ones.Deuteronomy 3:6
we utterly.2:34; 20:16-18; Le 27:28,29; Nu 21:2; Jos 11:14as we did.2; 2:24,34; Ps 135:10-12; 136:19-21Joshua 6:17-21
accursed. or, devoted.7:1; Le 27:28,29; Nu 21:2,3; 1Co 2:7; Ezr 10:8; *marg:Isa 34:6; Jer 46:10; Eze 39:17; Mic 4:13; 1Co 16:22; Ga 3:10,12only Rahab.2:1because.22,23; 2:4-6,22; Ge 12:3; 1Sa 15:6; Mt 10:41,42; 25:40; Heb 6:10Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25 in any wise.Ro 12:9; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:11; Jas 1:27; 1Jo 5:21lest ye make.7:1,11,12,15; De 7:26; 13:17make the camp.7:11,12; 22:18-20; 1Sa 14:28-42; Ec 9:18; Jon 1:12and trouble it.7:25; 2Sa 21:1; 1Ki 18:17,18 all the silver.2Sa 8:11; 1Ch 18:11; 26:20,26,28; 28:12; 2Ch 15:18; 31:12Isa 23:17,18; Mic 4:13consecrated. Heb. holiness.Le 19:24; *marg:Zec 14:20,21the treasury.1Ki 7:51; 14:26; 2Ki 24:13; 1Ch 26:20; Ne 7:70,71; 10:38; Jer 38:11Mt 27:6; Mr 12:41 the wall.5; 2Co 10:4,5; Heb 11:30flat. Heb. under it. And they.The Canaanites were ripe for destruction; and God was pleased, instead of destroying them by a pestilence, a famine, or an earthquake, to employ the Israelites as the executioners of his vengeance. Had an angel been commissioned to slay them, who would have charged him with iniquity or cruelty? In all public calamities infants are involved; and tens of thousands of infants die in great agony every year. Now, either God is not the agent in these calamities, (which opinion, though often implied in men's reasonings on these subjects, is not far from atheism;) or they must consist with the most perfect justice and goodness. utterly.9:24,25; 10:28,39; 11:14; De 2:34; 7:2,3,16; 20:16,171Sa 15:3,8,18,19; 1Ki 20:42; Ps 137:8,9; Jer 48:18; Re 18:211 Samuel 15:3
Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right. utterly destroy.Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21slay.Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22ox and sheep.Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-222 Chronicles 36:17
he brought.33:11; De 28:49; 2Ki 24:2,3; Ezr 9:7; Jer 15:8; 32:42; 40:3; Da 9:14the king.2Ki 25:1-30; Jer 39:1-18; 52:1-34who slew.Le 26:14-46; De 28:15-68; 29:18-28; 30:18; 31:16-18; 32:15-28Ps 74:20; 79:2,3; Jer 15:9; 18:21; La 2:21,22in the house.24:21; La 2:20; Eze 9:5-7; Lu 13:1,2no compassion.De 28:50; Ps 74:20
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