So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. Judges 21:10 (Wonder hoe hulle bepaal het wie is maagd al dan nie. Het hulle eers ondersoek ingestel, en daarna die wie nie as maagde bevind is nie vermoor?)
Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. Num.31:18
But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.Deut 20:14
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera’s spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30)
Vandag sou bogenoemde dade as “war crimes” bestempel wees, en die skuldige Leier in die Wêreldhof aanspreeklik aangehou word vir sodanige dade.
Jaco Fourie