What bad made the children who God sends to Moises army to murder and rape to, according to Numbers 31:14-35?

Question

Numbers 31:14-35
"Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.
15 "Have you allowed all the women to live?" he asked them. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."

25 The LORD said to Moses, 26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured. 27 Divide the spoils between the soldiers who took part in the battle. 32 The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 33 72,000 cattle, 34 61,000 donkeys 35 and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man."

Answer 1

Let see "Save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man" ......

Save the girl for yourselves to do what, play Chess? ........ I reckon save her to lay (As in bible text) with him.

Answer 2

Wow.

Well, that's the way they did business back then. They didn't spend a lot of time paying for the rehabilitation of prisoners of war: when a town got invaded, all the men and boys were killed and the women and girls were either killed or used for one purpose or another. The place was looted, and everything was torn down to the ground, and that was that.

It is indeed disturbing, though there's not really any evidence that war has become any less wasteful or any more civilized since then.

Answer 3

Because they were polluted and unclean. Only the virgins and young girls could be saved because only they were young enough to raise as true "friends of Israel." Anyone else would have identified as Israels enemy and lived to fight them another day, in effect, inviting the enemy into their midst.

Answer 4

sounds like a good day for moses' army ... i dont see anything about rape there tho ...

Answer 5

Huh?