Extend to Offensive Warfare?
nAmos 1-2 pictures GodÕs response to various Gentile nationsÕ activities in waging war:
n1:3 – ÔthreshingÕ Gilead (app atrocities)
n1:6 – taking captive & selling whole communities
n1:9 – selling communities & disregarding treaty
n1:11 – pursuing brother w/ sword, stifling compassion
n1:13 – ripping open pregnant women to extend oneÕs territory
n2:1 – burning enemiesÕ bones to lime (desecrating bodies)