war! what is it good for?

Originally posted by kevcvs57
Not meaning to sound flippant but if you do it for money but dont enjoy it is that okay, went to the link, is this okay; "those cities outside of the Promised Land that resist should be besieged, and once they fall, the male population should be exterminated, but the women and children should be left alive (20:12-15)"

Deuteronomy 20:14 seems to be the really nasty line:

...but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0520.htm#10

I don't have a response for that. Sounds pretty indefensible unless it's a mistranslation.

Maybe it's telling people not to kill civilians or destroy infrastructure. What is the original phrasing for "to prey"? I can't read the Hebrew.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Deuteronomy 20:14 seems to be the really nasty line:

...but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0520.htm#10 ...[text shortened]... roy infrastructure. What is the original phrasing for "to prey"? I can't read the Hebrew.

yar har me matey.

it means to despoil, plunder, seize