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The reason for killing all is given in verse two, which you have been consistently ignoring. But this was the incident to which they were referring.

The only way to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven was to kill them all. Otherwise they would just rise up and do it again.

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Exodus 17: 8 The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”

10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

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Your turn. Explain the ritual human sacrifice of children in Hinduism for so long without even the reason of capitol punishment, but just the lousy excuse of satisfying the blood lust of some demon.

You support the ritual slaughter of children so that a tribe is extinguished? Is behaviour encoded in the DNA that allows for slaughtering children AND INFANTS, instead of adopting them?

Wow, just wow.

No child-sacrifice in the Gita. Try again.

Read the Old Testament is not like reading your morning local newspaper where quotes can be selectively pulled out and held up as a definitive textual interpretation. In serious academic circles this would be considered “clownish”

Please review the essay below and it might put an end to this sophomoric turning around of chasing one’s own tail because as the essay details the depths of scholarly exegesis does not admit of facile references.

http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/odendaal-interpretation.shtml