Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 104
The King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, published in 1611, translates the Sixth Commandment from the original Herbrew in the Old Testament, as "Thou shalt not kill." But in Matthew 19:18 (in the New Testament, translated from Greek) Jesus cites the Commandments from the KJV, as "Thou shall do no murder." If you have to kill in the lawful act of your duty, in defense of yourself or another, is that murder? No. The Bible says that King David was a man after God's own heart (Acts, 13:22). It says, "Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands" (1 Samuel, 18:7). David killed tens of thousands of men in combat and was honored for it. It was not until he murdered Uriah to get at Bethsheba that he got himself into trouble (II Samuel Chapter 11). Can you tell the difference in killing 10,000 men in lawful combat and murdering one man to get at his wife? If you can, maybe God can too. In Proverbs 6:17 it says, "These six things doth the Lord hate, yea seven are an abomination." If you have even a remote sense that there is a God and that he is the God of the Bible, you might want to know what he hates. Near the top of God's list are "shedders of innocent blood," and we know that those who have fought to preserve innocent lives have received the highest honor during 5,000 years of Judeo-Christian ethos.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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