by Woodsman 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
(Numbers 31:17-18) 17 And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has had intercourse with man by lying with a male. 18 And preserve alive for yourselves all the little ones among the women who have not known the act of lying with a male.
The more I read between the lines the more disturbing it all gets.
Probably just one swift slice of the sword across the throat of the child, I hope. Can't have nits growing up to be lice, can we? Similar to the women. And the WTS likes to tell us how cruel the Assyrians were. Or the ones that dashed the baby's head against the wall.
Yes, all the babies at the flood, at Sodom and Gomorrah, and at Armageddon, will/have died forever because their parents died. Wicked babies!!!
I wonder what age that thought was too young to have had intercourse. The WTS portrays the Caananites as sexual perverts, so how would they know?
Blondie
dear woodsman the midianites actually conspired to get israelites to disobey jehovah because they knew he would not back them up if they committed gross sin.the virgins were left and taken in because they were not contaminated by fornication and the little males would have taught the ways of the baal of peor so forth and so on so all that was allowed to remain alive out of the midianites were those that were innocent.
Ez, only the female virgins were 'innocent'?
Greven
Thanks Ezra,
That is an possible explanation as to why they were kept alive but it does not explain what they did with them. Particularly what did Eleazar do with 32 virgin lttle ones?
(Numbers 31:17-18) 17 And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has had intercourse with man by lying with a male. 18 And preserve alive for yourselves all the little ones among the women who have not known the act of lying with a male.
(Judges 21:12) 12 However, they found out of the inhabitants of Ja´besh-gil´e·ad four hundred girls, virgins, that had not had intercourse with a man by lying with a male. So they brought them to the camp at Shi´loh, which is in the land of Ca´naan. . .
(Judges 21:14) . . .Then they gave them the women that they had preserved alive from the women of Ja´besh-gil´e·ad; but they did not find enough for them. . .
(Judges 21:18) . . .to give them wives . . .
(Judges 21:21) . . .and carry off for yourselves by force each one his wife from the daughters of Shi´loh,. . .
(Numbers 31:35) 35 As for human souls from the women who had not known the act of lying with a male, all the souls were thirty-two thousand. . .
(Numbers 31:36-41) 36 And the half that was the share of those who went out on the expedition amounted in number to three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred of the flock. 37 And the tax for Jehovah from the flock amounted to six hundred and seventy-five. 38 And of the herd there were thirty-six thousand, and the tax on them for Jehovah was seventy-two. 39 And the asses were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tax on them for Jehovah was sixty-one. 40 And the human souls were sixteen thousand, and the tax on them for Jehovah was thirty-two souls. 41 Then Moses gave the tax as Jehovah’s contribution to El·e·a´zar the priest, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
I was wondering if anyone knew of any history on this practice.
Slaughter of Midianites.
