2nd Samuel 11:16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
That last statement: “There fell some of the people of the servants of David” tells us that wherever man worship is practiced, where one’s loyalty rests with man, instead of God, there would also be collateral damage taking place, even with persons who might have had absolutely nothing to do with the man worship in question.
1st Chronicles 21:3 And Joab answered, The Lord make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
The same thing occurred in the days of Rameses 2, as he brought his country to ruins, because those who were under his jurisdiction adopted the maxim Pharaoh first” and everyone else after. They would be loyal to him, even though a national funeral is scheduled to take place, after the angel of death passes through. Again, just as it was with Joab and Adam, major national, collateral damage would ensue and young babies would perish in the process but the principle of loyalty to man still holds sway.
Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
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