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To this day God still decides to whom He will extend grace and to whom he will carry out judgment. It could be that the sacrifices that cover sin were the reasons that the Hebrews were not killed. That is the explanation that the bible gives as to the main purpose of sacrifices. And since the Midianites worshiped Balaam they did not have their sins covered. A discussion of the "innocents' was in a former post.I suppose that as other chapters describe they were distributed about one for each soldiers family with the rest distributed among families that did not have soldiers as the family head. I suppose that since they were under the age of about 12 they were treated as daughters and then as they matured they were allowed to marry according to the same customs that natural born daughters married. The Hebrew laws of war did allow for adult woman taken captive to be married but none of these were adults.
To this day God still decides to whom He will extend grace and to whom he will carry out judgment. It could be that the sacrifices that cover sin were the reasons that the Hebrews were not killed. That is the explanation that the bible gives as to the main purpose of sacrifices. And since the Midianites worshiped Balaam they did not have their sins covered. A discussion of the "innocents' was in a former post.
I suppose that as other chapters describe they were distributed about one for each soldiers family with the rest distributed among families that did not have soldiers as the family head. I suppose that since they were under the age of about 12 they were treated as daughters and then as they matured they were allowed to marry according to the same customs that natural born daughters married. The Hebrew laws of war did allow for adult woman taken captive to be married but none of these were adults.
