Inerrant Lie #7

Another lie from "God's ineffable, Inerrant word":

This one is found in Numbers.Verse 7 of chapter 31 says, "And [the children of Israel] warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males." This explicitly describes a holocaust of consecration. There is no “seed” left to the house of Midian, minus the male loins necessary to produce it. Yet the Midianites show back up-- in power-- years later.

As Judges 6 records, "the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds [Judges 6:2]."

From the Midianites they were saved by Gideon and his three hundred, as Judges 8:22 affirms, saying, "Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian." How could the children of Israel be saved from a nation which officially doesn't exist, as per Numbers 31:7 (above)?

Obviously Moses' scribe lied when recording the 'killing of all the males of Midian' in Numbers 31. This should come as no surprise, considering that, for Moses, killing all the males of Midian would have required the execution of his own father- in- law, the priest of Midian [Exodus 18:1], and Moses’ mentor in all things “holy.”