Amorites
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the Amorites · the Amorite · the King of the Amorites
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Amorite people whose king refused Moses's request for passage, resulting in justified war.
Upon these equitable terms being rejected, Moses was justified in making war upon the Amorites.
Jacob, in making a particular bequest to Joseph above his brethren, says, “I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword, and with my bow.
Upon this principle among others, Jephthah defends himself against the Ammonites, because by the laws of war they had lost the land, which they claimed, in the same manner, as another part had been transferred from the Moabites to the Amorites, and from the Amorites to the Hebrews.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Biblical people who denied the Israelites passage, prompting just war.
We read of a similar case in the history of Moses, which we find mentioned also in the writings of Augustine, where the Israelites justly smote with the edge of the sword the Amorites because they had denied the Israelites an innocent passage through their territory, a right which according to the Law of Human Society ought in all justice to have been allowed.