The third reason Dr. Land proposes for a justifiable war is last resort. When a war is entered because peaceful reasoning, among other peaceful methods, has been exhausted, war is justified (Land). Before the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, Moses asked multiple times for Pharaoh to set the Israelites free. Pharaoh consistently refused, occasionally allowing the Israelites to leave but retracting this release before they got away. Eventually, the plagues sent down from God led to the Israelites being let go, but the Egyptians pursued them into the Red Sea. While neither the plagues nor the Exodus were wars themselves, they were such drastic actions that they are easily comparable to war (“What Does the Bible Say about War?”). When the United
