[nothingnew]

Goes something like, “THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT MURDER!”

You are pretty much right..."Thou shalt not murder" got changed somewhere to "Thou shalt not kill."

Two different things.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Conan the Librarian]

King James, when he authorized the KJV translation, insisted that it say “kill” not “murder”. It was a political decision, not, a religious one.

Otherwise, soldiers would be in trouble just for defending their country.