What Ecclesiastes 3:8 says about war's time and purpose
Ecclesiastes 3:8 places war among life's many seasons, recognizing it as one reality under God's timing without defining its morality.
1 Samuel 15:2–3: Did God Command Genocide?
1 Samuel 15:2–3 records a specific command given to one king against one people at one moment, grounded in Amalek's attack on Israel out of Egypt. The chapter treats it as a bounded historical order, not a standing warrant for anyone else's warfare.