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:" He betook himself to slay the women and the children, and thought he did not act therein either barbarously or inhumanly ; first, because they were enemies whom he thus treated, and, in the next place, because it was done by the command of God, whom it was dangerous not to obey " ( Flavius Josephus, Antiquites Judicae, Book VI, Chapter 7 ).