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[Mister Agenda]

In order for me to correct your misunderstanding or to even acknowledge it, I have to see your take on the passage. My take on it however, is that after the fall of man war was a way of life. It was how you kept your people alive and grew your empire. Game of Thrones in real life. None of the other nations offered peace nor mercy and the fact that Jews did that was very different. Now if peace was not accepted then killing anyone able to fight back and keeping the ones unable alive was the logical and moral way of doing war. And if peace was kept, maintaining the idea of supremacy over the people was a way to keep them from rebelling. Jews also treated their servants well unlike how the Egyptians treated them lol.

That sounds a lot like 'it was okay because everybody else was doing it'. Including the cities being conquered? You present a claim that other conquering tribes never offered quarter to cities they intended to sack, I strongly doubt that's true. Bandits have always generally preferred having loot handed to them over having to fight for it.