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Bible Question: I'm in an anthropology class and naturally they aren't fond of religion, especially Christianity. My professor recently told us of an example of genocide of the Midianites in the Old Testament in Numbers that was supported by God. I just came from a site where I found the verses, but I'm wondering what God's plan was at that time. He wouldn't support that would He? Our professor was saying that they killed all the men and took the women and kids for themselves because the Israelites were having bastard children with them or something like that. What was the real reason for them to kill the Midianites? |
Bible Answer: African Venus, Here are some of my previous notes on the situation you are asking about. The Midianites like the Hebrews were a nomadic people like the Hebrews. It is likely that they ranged over a wide area and not all the tribe and clans engaged with the hebrews. Here is a footnotew on Num 31:17 from the NAB bible. "There are later references to Midian in Jdgs 6-8; 1 Kings 11:18; Isaiah 60:6. The present raid was only against those Midianites who were dwelling at this time near the encampment of the Israelites." Midianites reappear? Joshua 13: 20-23 indicate that the Midianites who were wiped out were vassels of the Amorite knig, Shihon. Their lands were given to Rueben. We know the Midianites covered a much wider range in cluding the Sinai penninsulas because in Ex 6 we are told that Jethro, Moses father in kaw was the Midianit priest in Sinai. Moses married one of his daughters and was living with Jethro and tending his flocks when he saw the burning bush on Mt. Sinai. Emmaus |
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