When attacking a city, what is the proper way to behave?
Ask God...
"When you march up to attack a city, first offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to your terms of peace and opens it's gates to you, all the people to be found in it shall serve you in forced labor. But if it refuses to make peace with you and instead offers you battle, lay siege to it, and when the Lord, your God, delivers it into your hand, put every male in it to the sword; but the women and children and livestock and all else in it that is worth plundering you may take as your booty, and you may use this plunder of your enemies which the Lord, your God, has given you. Deuteronomy 20:10
That is how you shall deal with any city at a considerable distance from you, which does not belong to the peopls of this land. But in the cities of those nations which the Lord, your God, is giving you as your heritage, YOU SHALL NOT LEAVE A SINGLE SOUL ALIVE. You must doom them all- the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites- as theLord, your God, has commanded you, lest they teach you to make any such abominable offerings as they make to their gods, and you thus sin against the Lord, your God.
Hey, Atilla the Hun wasn't all that bad. And let's do away with those dumb Geneva Accords. We have God himself for guidance.
D.K. |
