Where God Spoke To Me:
- Nothing really jumped out to me in this chapter.
Help:
- Verses 12-13 - This is a miraculous intervention by God.
- Verse 13 - "the Book of Jashar"- This is a book that didn't make it into the Bible but is a historic document.
- Verses 28, 35, 40 -
Israel
doesn't just kill the men who meet them in battle, but they kill everyone in
the city: men, women, teens, children, babies. There are some
explanations that are often given: the guilt of these people was great; it was
necessary for all the people to be gone for Israel to succeed in this land;
this was Israel's God-granted land; they chose to fight rather than to
flee. All of them get at part of the issue, but in the end I still
struggle with such wholesale slaughter in the name of God. It's one of
the Biblical issues to which I have not yet found an explanation that fully
satisfies me.
If you want to read the chapter online, here's a link.
If you have a question or comment, email me at butcher@ymail.com.
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