Joshua 6:21

BSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

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And they.The Canaanites were ripe for destruction; and God was pleased, instead of destroying them by a pestilence, a famine, or an earthquake, to employ the Israelites as the executioners of his vengeance. Had an angel been commissioned to slay them, who would have charged him with iniquity or cruelty? In all public calamities infants are involved; and tens of thousands of infants die in great agony every year. Now, either God is not the agent in these calamities, (which opinion, though often implied in men's reasonings on these subjects, is not far from atheism;) or they must consist with the most perfect justice and goodness.
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Joshua 9:24; Joshua 9:25; Joshua 10:28; Joshua 10:39; Joshua 11:14; Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:3; Deuteronomy 7:16; Deuteronomy 20:16; Deuteronomy 20:17
1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 15:8; 1 Samuel 15:18; 1 Samuel 15:19; 1 Kings 20:42; Psalms 137:8; Psalms 137:9; Jeremiah 48:18; Revelation 18:21