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Why in 1 Samuel 15 did the Lord command Samuel to kill even the Amalekites' children and animals?
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Because God remembers what Amalek did hundreds of years ago.
1 Samuel 15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
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.
And Genocide is the norm on whoever does not believe in the God of the Hebrews (Exodus 32:25-26) and whoever resists giving their land to them (Numbers 21:34-35).
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