Israelites
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the Israelites · Israel · descendants of Abraham · the Hebrews · the Jews · the people of Israel
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The Rights of War and Peace (English) · Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
Of all nations there is but one, to which God particularly vouchsafed to give laws, and that was the people of Israel, whom Moses thus addresses in the fourth Chap.
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The Rights of War and Peace
The people of Israel whose scriptural wars are cited as examples relevant to the lawfulness of war.
chapter of Exodus supplies a passage more to the purpose, relating the overthrow which the Israelites, conducted by Moses and Joshua, made of the Amalekites.
For, prior to those times, holy men guided by the light of nature undertook wars, which the Israelites themselves afterwards did for various reasons, and David in particular, to avenge the violated rights of ambassadors.
And here is the proper place to animadvert slightly upon the mistake of those, who derive the rights of war, possessed by the Israelites, solely from the circumstance of God having given them the land of Canaan and commissioned them to drive out the inhabitants.
Barlaam and Josaphat
The people descended from Abraham, led out of Egypt and given the Law.
Then, leading the people through the desert for forty years with the greatest wonders and divine manifestations, and feeding them with bread from heaven, he gave a law written by God on tablets of stone, which he put into the hands of Moses upon the mountain — a figure and outline of things to come — leading them away from the idols and from all wicked deeds, and teaching them to worship the God w …
and when they had been enslaved to the Egyptian nation and to a certain tyrant Pharaoh, he led them out from thence with signs and dreadful and extraordinary wonders through Moses and Aaron, holy men glorified with the grace of prophecy — through whom he both chastised the Egyptians worthily of their wickedness, and led the Israelites (for so that people, the descendants of Abraham, was called) th …
For the law of Moses, given of old to the Israelites, says:
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Biblical people cited as precedent for justly warring over denial of passage rather than religious difference.
” Nor do I read in the Old Testament, when possession had to be obtained by force of arms, that the Israelites waged war on any heathen land because of the unbelief of its inhabitants;
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.