#if you read gotquestions on the imprecatory psalms youll see what i mean

[greater-than-the-sword]

Imprecatory psalms: I mean, Ham's descendants were cursed for his disobedience, Canaanite infants and toddlers' deaths were ordered for the wickedness of their peoples, David's infant son died for his sin. The Bible does not seem to have the issues we do with punishing people, even children, for the wrongdoing of others.

Don't get me wrong, i don't like it either, and i would love to find an explanation that shows it's not what it sounds like, but i'm not sure there is one, least not this side of Heaven.

The thing is, it is quite one thing for God to do as he will, even up to taking away a child as a punishment for someone's sin or to choose their line to become the enemies of God, (and also we know very well that Ham's descendants were quite wicked in their own right) BUT to me it feels like a quite different thing to suggest that this is an acceptable thing for humans at any point in time to wish for or get involved in.

It is known the character of God does not change; so those explanations are ruled out.

Just read Ezekiel 18.

My way of reconciling this with the statements in Exodus was that God was there saying that the sin of the fathers will have consequences for a long time, even generational consequences within their family, and this is something you can even directly observe in life commonly.

To me this leaves the human-involved cases like Psalms and so forth to be the outliers and more difficult to explain.