It’s probably happened to you.  You were debating the existence of God, and your friend or debate sparring partner pulled out the winning question, “If God is a God of love, how come he killed off so many tribes of non-Israelites in the Old Testament?”  It is kind of hard to answer.  You spout off something about penal substitutionary atonement before the Mosaic covenant, argue for God’s moral law being broken or talk about cherem – shunning someone because of their behavior.  Your friend looks at you funny because your answer was confusing and it also did not satisfy the original question about a God of love.  I think I have a better answer for you; we’ll use the Ammonites as our example.

So the Ammonites needed something.  We’ll choose an arbitrary item, like: new shoes.