King David Slaughtering Two-Thirds of His Prisoners of War Was an “Admirable Example”
And when David slaughtered two-thirds of his Moabite prisoners (2 Sam. 8:1–2), they did not have the recourse of appealing to the Geneva Convention.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2023, from Mere Christendom, cited to the source.
It should be obvious that in the time of Moses, that particular blasphemer could not appeal to his Jeffersonian right to free expression. And when David slaughtered two-thirds of his Moabite prisoners (2 Sam. 8:1–2), they did not have the recourse of appealing to the Geneva Convention. But what do these righteous laws and such admirable examples mean for us today?