Numbers 31:7-18
They attacked Midian as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho. Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the generals and captains[a] who had returned from the battle.
“Why have you let all the women live?” he demanded. “These are the very ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the Lord at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the Lord’s people. So kill all the boys and all the women who have had intercourse with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
Discuss.
It’s not terrorism when we do it
How many of the LORDS! commandments did this jive Moses break here? Nice way to spoil the “victim” narrative.
Beautiful!
So, genocide, gang rape, destruction of habitat and dwellings is a perfectly acceptable thing for people to do as long as they’re following the landlord’s orders.
Then if course, you attribute responsibility to some magical imaginary “supreme being” and you’re off the hook. “Oh, it was God’s will that we had to murder 10 million people, steal their shit and rape their babies.”
What a fucking crock. No wonder the Republican/TeaNazi party is so hot to get rid of the rule of Law. Once they destroy that, they can rape all the babies they want to without fear of retribution or even being prevented from doing it.
“Why have you let all the women live?” he demanded.
Hey, someone’s gotta do the laundry.
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Who killed our Lord Jesus?
The wicked Goldy killed our Lord Jesus
So….vacationing in Moab was being promoted long, long ago?
@ 7 AF
Yeah, but they didn’t have the cool shit we have now.
@6 no I think evangelical radicals have hijacked religion and are spoiling it. The pope even thinks they are a bunch of stiffs. I’m sure they are turning a lot of people against their religious freedom.
Genocide wasn’t as big a deal back then because three-quarters of the children died before age five and no one lived past the age of twenty anyway. They didn’t have Obamacare then.
This is just a story. 12,000 men did all this and still managed to control 600,000 sheep and 32,000 virgins. No to mention feed and shelter them. Besides King Ramses the 2nd defeated the Moabs during his campaign in the 13th century against them and other nations. And the Moabs were still under Egypt at the time of this story.
Also there are later mentions of Moab in the bible. Seems King David had dealings with them. Sarah reports good relations with the Moab’s and Bethlehem. Moab hung around until the Persian period when it was overrun by Arab tribes.
Of course Moab folk were close relatives of the Hebrews daughters of Lot. Even so the later history seems to show the genocide didn’t happen, wasn’t effective, or the war if it happened is highly exaggerated. Also King Mesha of the Moabites claimed complete victory over Israel.
Moses was a dick too.