You love of seeing the worst in God really gets the better of you.
The passage in Isaiah says that God predicts the event will happen not that God orders the event to happen.
When a soldier kills a soldier it is not murder.
when a child who would die otherwise because her father was killed in war is taken in it is not kidnapping.
When she gets married it is not rape. Even if it is an arranged marriage like most in the world still are today. (and this did not happen to the midianite women because they were all dead) you can put your own slant on events that happened thousands of years ago but at the time it seemed right to those who were involved.
I said it was more like employment not exactly like it.
Take things out of context and you will get them wrong.
In Exodus when it describes the death penalty for killing a man it says if a person strikes someone and they die (manslaughter) that person must be put to death. And it goes on to say that if they strike a slave and the slave does not die then they are not to be put to death. It makes sense to me that one would not receive the punishment for killing a person if that person does not actually die. The passage goes on to describe how compensation must be paid to any slave for injuries caused to that slave. So we see that corporal punishment that results in any injury is punishable. In fact the passage is a part of the passage that describes the exact same scenario and punishment for men who strike each other even if one is not a slave:
"If men quarrel and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist and he does not die but is confined to bed, 19 the one who struck the blow will not be held responsible if the other gets up and walks around outside with his staff; however, he must pay the injured man for the loss of his time and see that he is completely healed. If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, 21 but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property (ksph--"silver"; not the normal word(s) for property[]"
What would motivate a person to read only the last half of that passage and ignore the first half? how can they not see that the slave is being treated the same under the law as the non-slave?
