when it comes to war, there is little room in the Bible for human notions of justice and morality. Whatever God decrees is ethical and right. The only limits are God’s limits. “Now go and attack the Amalekites,” God orders Saul, Israel’s incipient king, “and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey” (1 Sam. 15:3).
