Samuel orders Saul to attack wicked Amalek and wipe out men, women and children, and destroy all their tainted possessions.
Today we would prefer that just and holy war would be to wipe out the warriors, and minimize civilian damage, and certainly not to exterminate everyone. but in those harsh, primitive, simpler moral times, drawing a hard line may have been the only way for Yahweh to make his message clear and herd by nomadic savages that he is determined to convert to his chosen, holy people.
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