Josue 6:16-20, which relates Josue’s command to the Israelites conquering Jericho: “And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord,” sparing only Rahab the harlot and her house. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them.” Deuteronomy 7:1-2, wherein it is said concerning certain people inhabiting Canaan that “God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. When the victorious Israelite army of 12,000 slays only the men, Moses was angered and ordered the slaying of all the male children and all the women who were not virgins, whereas the virgin women and girls are allowed to live (vs. Numbers 31, which relates the war against the Madianites, a war of God’s own vengeance against Madian (vs. Here are some specific passages to consider (all the links will take the reader to the Douay Old Testament): 
One might categorize these passages under different headings, but the ones I am interested in now are those which testify to God commanding the slaughter of all of the inhabitants of a place, including children and sometimes even animals. The “dark passages” are those parts of Holy Scripture wherein God appears to demand, do, or allow shocking things, acts that would normally - outside of the context of a divine sanction - be forbidden by His own law. This is largely due to the use put to these passages by the enemies of the Christian name, by which I mean the aggressive, new-fangled atheists, who lately write pompous books against God, and get further media attention in order to attack Him. Much attention has been given to the so-called “dark passages” of the Bible in recent years.
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