Forty Days: The songs of war (and peace)

God led his people to the Promised Land. "And he sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.'" (1 Samuel 15:18). Since ancient Biblical times virtually all wars have been fought for food, plunder, and territory. "To the victor go the spoils" as destruction was meted out to the vanquished. It was territory, liberty, and freedom for which the Revolutionary War was fought. The Civil War was fought to determine who shall be free.