That account is more about Jehovah tricking the nation of Israel to fight the tribe of Benjamin just so Jah could see them slaughter each other. About a million total were killed plus tons of innocent animals for his pleasure.
That account is more about Jehovah being a prick psychopath.
The entire nation of Israel seeks Jehovah’s direction to bring to justice some men that raped a woman to death. It was just a few men who committed the act. All it would have taken to prevent more killing was for Jehovah to send an angel to kill those few men who raped the woman to death. But instead Jehovah tells all Israel to go and fight the tribe of Benjamin who would not hand over these men, probably because they wanted a fair trial first to see who was guilty.
Instead Jehovah directs the nation to go and fight and 22,000 men are slaughtered. None of the bad men are killed according to the account.
Only the good men who wanted to do what was right and asked for Jehovah’s direction were killed in battle.
The Good men of Israel who wanted to do the right thing and went to Jehovah for direction on what to do next are distraught, and wonder if they should just all go home. But Jehovah tells them not to go home but to go again and fight the war. So they listen to Jehovah and this time they kill 18,000 good, righteous men. But none of the bad men are killed.
I can not imagine the pain that 40,000 wives went through after they found out their husbands had been killed for listening to Jehovah’s direction to go out and fight. Probably several hundred thousand children lost their fathers that day. Also many parents who lost their sons. But none of the bad men lost their lives???
Now 40,000 wives had to do all the farming work if they wanted to survive or become a secondary wife, or let's just use the correct term- SLAVE-- to her husband's brother according to the law.
Finally on the third try Jehovah helped them get the bad guys but in doing so they almost commit total genocide to the tribe of Benjamin. Jehovah directed them to kill every innocent child, and every mother, every father who had nothing to do with the original crime of rape to begin with. And even all the domestic animals were slaughtered. Probably totaling a MILLION INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS and animals.
Why? Why would an all loving, all just, all powerful God do such a wicked thing? When all he had to do was give the good guys the victory immediately without any loss of innocent fathers who were just trying to do the right thing by obeying Jehovah’s direction?????
Why didn’t this almighty Good God just kill the few bad men that raped the woman to death and avoid the slaughter of millions of innocent children and mothers and even animals who had nothing to do with the original crime?
This atrocity, this awful slaughter left only 600 Benjaminites left over, out of the whole tribe of perhaps a million considering it was the entire tribe.
So what are Jehovah’s people directed to do after this slaughter of innocent people?
They are directed to go to the city of Jabesh-Gilead and Murder everyone with the edge of the sword. Every young girl, every mother, every father, every elderly person was slaughtered. And even the little infants were slaughter like animals, even though they had nothing to do with the original crime of rape. And then they were directed to kidnap all the young children who are girls and virgins so the Benjamities can forcibly rape them and force them to be their wives.
But that’s not all. There were only 400 young virgin girls left after the slaughter, and they needed more young girls, so they are directed to go to Shiloh and hide in the vineyards and when the opportunity arises, they are to forcibly kidnap the young girls so they can forcibly be raped by the left over Benjaminites and forcibly make them their slavish wives.
This was not an account of Jehovah ordering war against fellow Israelite's but this was more of a glimpse of the kind of God Jehovah is. He is a murderous, psychopath. Worse than all the villains shown today in movies like Texas Chain Saw massacre, or SAW
Who in the world would worship such a God, they have to be crazy to do so.