What I quoted was about some not being killed. Giants would be these people, the Hittites, and the Girga****es, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims, the Ammonites call them Zamzummims, the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob, with all Bashan. That list was wiped out because they were not fully human.Don't see anything about giants in what you quoted. What I see is, surrender immediately and pay tribute and become our servants, or we'll murder all your menfolk, take everyone else hostage, rob you of everything you own, and you'll become our servants anyway. Nice pair of options. Change some of the story's specifics, so that it's not the Israelites taking territory away from the people who already live in it, but somebody else doing, or trying to do, the same thing with the same conditions in some other time and place. Like, say, the Ottoman Turks besieging Vienna in 1529, shortly after they'd massacred the garrison at Buda in Hungary, and making the same threat. I'm not saying they did, just imagine they did. Wouldn't you perceive that as odious? Don't you perceive that story in Deuteronomy as equally odious? It's a biblical story and thus presumably represents god's will; does that make alright?
Genghis Khan would have loved the Old Testament and that ferocious ogre of a tribal deity it tells about. He's one of the nastiest characters in all of literature.
God wanted a certain piece of land, that there happened to be giants in the road made it a two-for-one shot. Got the desired land and got rid if the genitally different race, 11 ft tall and having 24 fingers and toes. He took just enough to establish a place for Jesus to be born. If He was truly blood-thirsty (and stories would have circulated making invasion most unlikely) He could have kept going. You do not know the final fate of those He killed. If they are alive and well when the new earth is revealed then it wasn't all that cruel. (at an individual level).
You don't even have to believe to determine who God was fully intending to make extinct and the reason for that annialiation, while only a few miles away some could be spared.
I'm not claiming God was peaceful back then, peace seems far away when a book is being written that has the title Book of Wars of the LORD. He was after something specific and He killed those who would not yeild. How do you think the rest of the world operated back then? Even then God was operating at minimun capacity. Fire from Heaven that takes out Satan and all other fallen angels near the end of Revelation, it is the biggest sign of God's power that the Bible contains.
I'm sure the people who it effected are the ones whose emotions are most important. Does 1 resurrection equal I death sentence that has been carried out. Nothing in the rules says it has to be quietly in the dead on night. Without having a strong army they would have had endless defensive wars. I don't have much in the way of other sources about cultures back then, other than the same ones that were covered in school. How did Egyptians handle wars and prisoners, did they ever kill them all? Neb carried them away when he invaded, as did Rome. Your example was more about being on the road (taking territory) but not much about like back home. At least that is what info I have at present.
The standards back then might not live upto our current expectations, they didn't have prisons back then, you were either cast out of the group or they killed you. Did other civilizations have jails, big jails?
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