{"id":5552,"date":"2019-07-15T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:58:20","slug":"deuteronomy-2016-18-were-the-captives-to-be-spared-or-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/deuteronomy-2016-18-were-the-captives-to-be-spared-or-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Deuteronomy 20:16\u201318\u2014Were the captives to be spared or killed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> In Deuteronomy 20:11, 15, Moses commanded the Israelites to spare the lives of their captives and make them servants. But only a few verses later he instructs them to \u201clet nothing that breathes remain alive\u201d (v. 16).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> The general rule was to make captives of the people conquered. Only in the specific case of the \u201cseven nations\u201d of Canaan were they to exterminate them (see comments on Josh. 6:21). This was because of their \u201cabominations\u201d which were so obnoxious to God that the land \u201cvomits out its inhabitants\u201d (Lev. 18:25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: In Deuteronomy 20:11, 15, Moses commanded the Israelites to spare the lives of their captives and make them servants. But only a few verses later he instructs them to \u201clet nothing that breathes remain alive\u201d (v. 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}