Wednesday Bible Study: Mister big stuff

Deuteronomy 3 retells the story of the defeat of Og told earlier in Numbers, but with more detailed and specific slaughter. Also, the obsession with giants continues, Og apparently having been the biggest of them all. I repeat myself, but I would ask you again to reflect on the concept of " Biblical morality " and what it means to be " pro-life. "3 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.2 TheLord said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”3 So theLord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.4 At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them —the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.6 We completely destroyed[a] them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying[b] every city —men, women and children.7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.So just four verses to describe murdering all of the inhabitants of 60 cities, including the children, while grabbing all the lives...
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