Today's Favorite Verse: Numbers 31:15-17

Today's Favorite Verse: Numbers 31:15-17

"And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him."

When I read that they killed all the little boys I thought of how Moses as an infant was saved from a similar faith. I really didn't understand why these captives women and male children had to die. Then I realized I was viewing this in the eyes of my culture and not theirs. The male children would have grown up and felt it a solemn responsibility to avenge their father's death. That's like a ticking time bomb. The women that had known man intimately were part of the sexual immorality and idolatry that had caused the children of Israel to sin earlier. Leaving them among the Israelites would just unleased that. It was only the young girls that would be no threat to them. They would become their slaves. Interesting that those that were once slaves now have slaves.

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