[Alouette]

They were just fulfilling the scriptural prophecy of Psalms 137:9.

[Guenevere]

You're serious, aren't you.

[JOAT]

They were just fulfilling the scriptural prophecy of Psalms 137:9.

Psalm 137 prophesied the fall of Babylon by the Medo-Persian alliance, with Israel being avenged through the instrument of the Persians for the brutality committed by the Babylonians 70 years earlier.

The children being killed in this prophesy (Psalm 137) are Babylonian by Medes/Persians.

Hannah Duston was a righteously angry mom who killed the savages that murdered her baby.

[Gondring]

Article>>...Abenaki Indians, who killed her infant daughter by bashing the baby's head against a tree.

Alouette>They were just fulfilling the scriptural prophecy of Psalms 137:9.

Nope...no petrified trees in that area. ;-)

But you do make a good point at how many atrocities are mentioned in the Bible, and how things we see in today's world as horrific and barbaric and uncivilized were sometimes commanded by God.