My apologies, I incorrectly assumed that striking down children was generaly a bad thing... Remind me to be as indifferent the other genocides that have taken place in our time, as this has also ordained by god. Perhaps its just my ignorance, but I fail to reconsile these actions with a merciful, loving and omnipotent God... Smiting the first the born of everything to save a select group of people seems a bit harsh. If his got this kind of juice surely he could have found a more diplomatic solution by using the force to spontaneously relocate the Hebrew people