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God is a jealous God over His children. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. It were better for one to have a millstone about his neck and be cast into the depths of the sea that to offend one of these little ones. Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Amalek was a lesson to all observers that Israel was chosen. As far as the children, being raised in an idolatrous generation, by God takeing them they are safe in him, where as the nation as a whole had already turned to idolatry as a choice so it did not matter how long or short their lives were, their end would be the same. The whole duty of man is to fear God and keep his commandants.