“Do not allow a sorceress to live.” (Exodus 22:18)

“This is what the Lord Almighty says... ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” (1 Samuel 15:3)

“Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” (Psalm 137:9)

"Kill also all the women who have slept with a man. Spare the lives only of the young girls who have not slept with a man, and take them for yourselves".Num 31:7-19

"Yahweh gave into the power of Israel; and Israel struck every living creature there with the edge of the sword, and left none alive".Joshua 10:30

Exodus 20:13 says Do not kill. But due to human behavior, criminals especially terrorists have to be "promoted"!!!!!!!!!!

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We should begin by stating who God is, what God's justice is, where it's found, and precedence of his justice.

Then we can summon Moses, Samson, and any other person, or instance you wish to weigh.

Who is God? Whichever definition I may choose, or offer, it's evident that I can only limit myself to what I know, experience, fear, hope for, . . . even if it's 'nothing'.

And, given that any individual, by virtue of birth, is a product of social interaction, God is shared and affirmed communally.

In this case we meet the God of Moses, and the children of Israel. A God of the 'chosen'; an election that is presented as the result of Man's struggle with God (Jacob versus the angel).

And indeed both Moses and Jacob display all aspects of humanity. Theirs is also a story of murder and intrigue, and internal conflict.

God is the highest expression of this conflict. Hence Jacob goes up the ladder.

That is, God's justice is the facilitation of Man's highest objectives. And this objective is the inspiration of the Prophets and their books.

Where is God's justice found? God's justice is found in at the point of personal and communal healing and inspiration, where the dead, unborn, and the living converge. The altar. And here, the injunction is 'thou shall not kill'. At the altar Man meets justice and is ennobled.

Precedence. When Cain, a man, committed an act of murder, found reconciliation and healing, from the altar. And so was it with Moses and Samson. One only has to present himself at the altar to find justice.

War is differentiation. Seperation. A function of Man's experience of God. Religion is this expression. Thus one is always to consider God's justice in evolutionary terms.