hmmm,
thing is ... I was making a point about how extracts are used toprove any point you want to make. But still, there's a lot of smiting of peoples goes on in Deuteronomy. This is a bit from when they are on their way .. just passing through places. Every now and then God says "actually you can smite the fuck out of these" . Chapter 2 has a bit where God says
30: But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
31: And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
32: Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
God hardens the heart of Sihon,
simply to justify the invasion. Way to go there God. Check out a bit of Chapter 3 where they get into a real killing frenzy as God goads them on!
Deuteronomy, chapter 3
1: Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
2: And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
3: So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
4: And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5: All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
6: And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
7: But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
8: And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer ... ision=div1
God plays "Earth" like I play Command and Conquer it seems