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Deuteronomy 7:1,2 "When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girga****es, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy."

Recovery Version Footnote 7:2 "According to the divine thought, the nations in the land of Canaan had to be exterminated because they were devilish and mingled with demons."

Deuteronomy 20:16,17 "...in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you."

RecV footnote references Deut 7:2.

Joshua 6:21 "And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city with the edge of the sword: both men and women, young and old, and oxen and sheep and donkeys."

RecV cross references Deut 7:2.

1 Samuel 15:7-9 7 "Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt. He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed."

RecV footnote in 15:9 "Saul and the people's sparing the best of the things that should have been utterly destroyed portrays the fact that, experientially, we treasure the good aspects of our flesh, our natural life, and do not wish to destroy them... we must hate every aspect of the flesh and be absolute in destroying the flesh."

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Psalm 35:1 "Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me."

RecV footnote: "In the New Testament economy, a spiritual person would never ask God to fight against his enemies as David asked in this psalm."

Psalm 135:19 "If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!"

RecV footnote: "This describes the psalmist's hatred and loathing of the wickedness of the wicked according to the principle of good and evil."

So why did Jesus tell Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!"? Wasn't that according to the wrong principle? Shouldn't Jesus have been blessing Peter, according to the eternal economy of God as revealed in the New Testament?

And shouldn't Samuel been blessing Agag and the Amalekites? And shouldn't Joshua have been praying for blessings to the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, instead of attacking them with swords and burning their cities?

How come everyone else gets a free pass, but the psalmist supposedly has the "wrong concept"?