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Message Subject If God loves children then why did he order the Israelites to kill the children of the Amalekites and Canaanites?
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1 Samuel 15:3:

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

“Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the Lord your God”(Deuteronomy 20:16–18, NASB).

Psalm 137:9:

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
 Quoting: Akhnaton


Because they were evil hybrids, giants. Not fully human, they were an abomination to God......and mankind.

This is a long and in depth topic OP that requires alot of study to completely understand it. It can't all be explained in one paragraph.
 Quoting: Lisa*Lisa



the excluded books of the Bible ('excluded' by whom and why?) pretty much covers it.....Books of Enoch, Jubilees, lost Book of Eden...also....perhaps....the dozen or so NT books/epistles/gospels that have also been excluded!

(cheers!)
 Quoting: James von Brunne



There were no books excluded from the Bible. The Hebrew Bible is simply the library of books written and edited by Ezra the Scribe after the Babylonian captivity. Genesis -- II Kings is one book contained in 12 volumes cataloging and chronicling the history of the Jews from creation to the Babylonian Captivity. Ezra and Nehemiah are the second part of this work. The Psalms and Prophets are Ezra's compendium of the writings of the prophets before the captivity and during the restoration. That's all the Hebrew Bible is. They could not add more books, because only Ezra the Scribe had priestly and divine authority to put together such a volume in the first place. In fact, it was the king of Babylon who specifically ordered Ezra to take back the Book of the Law (not Ezra's 5 Books of Torah, but the one scroll of the Law written by Moses) and enscribe and teach just that. There aren't any other books to the Bible. These other books that you have mentioned were written several centuries later than Ezra's compendium (commonly called the Bible today).
 
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