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Deuteronomy 20:16-18 > As for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain
by lalaland1125 5y ago
Deuteronomy 20:16-18
> As for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. You shall annihilate them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—just as the Lord your God has commanded.”
- SnowHill9902 5y agoThat is a specific case during war between already warring tribes. It has nothing to do with murder being permitted in certain cases.
- DangitBobby 5y agoThere is a difference between murder and killing. Killing is the act of terminating a life. Murder is killing without the sanction (or de facto sanction) of an authority. The contention is that there seems to be plenty of killing sanctioned by God, but (literally by definition) you will find no murder sanctioned by God in the Bible. If we tie this back to TFA, "though shalt not kill" is more appropriately phrased as "though shalt not murder" given how often people were instructed by God himself to kill.