[7]. Isa. 10:15.
[8]. D. & C. 63:33.
[9]. Rev. 12:7-9.
[10]. Joshua 1-12.
[11]. Gen. 4:11, 12.
[12]. Ib. 9:6.
[13]. Ex. 20:13.
[14]. The same may be said of Israel's war upon the Amalekites, in the days of King Saul, and of similar wars undertaken by "the armies of the living God," heaven-directed and divinely empowered. Samuel's hewing of Agag "in pieces before the Lord," was not a crime, but an act of justice, a righteous retribution upon an unrighteous ruler, whose sword had "made women childless."—1 Sam. 15:33.
[15]. 1 Nephi 13:16-19.