Why did God exterminate women, children & animals?
The Western concept of the “chivalric code,” in which only soldiers fight and die in warfare, is both recent and unbiblical. If God is judging a nation because of its wickedness, then the women are equally under God’s judgment because of their involvement in sexual sins, child sacrifice and occultism. The children’s death is a problem primarily to the person who sees this life as the only life one has. Since God saves the child who dies before the “age of accountability” (see 2 Sam. 12:23), and since the children raised in such a depraved culture would probably join in that depravity, many children my have actually been rescued from eternal death. NOTE: It is important not to extrapolate this principle to our own day and argue that it is better for children to be aborted. God alone reserves the prerogative to make such decisions. The animals were killed and the property was burned so that Israel could not profit materially from the conquest (see above). Furthermore, some of the inanima
