Why did God command the killing of children?

.... and for you to say its alright to kill the babies?? isnt that what hitler did? and isnt there i little story about moses? why didnt his mother just kill him instead of letting him live in a fourgn land,,,, you see when you start to fabricate storys about things they dont fit together vary well,

I am confused. Where in the Bible does it say that God commanded the killing of children?

not commanding the killing of children- per se- but the mass killing of children...

we don't often think about it but approximately 2,000 years after creation, we are told that god sent a world wide flood- destroying everything and everyone. after 2,000 years of breeding and living to be hundreds of years old, there must have been ten of millions of people alive. and millions of children.

but evidently only one person found favor with god- noah.

we are told that noah was a righteous man. the implication is that noah found favor because he was righteous. and that he was the only righteous one on the planet.

interestingly, "innocent" children are not mentioned. but then again:

As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one."
"Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their lips."
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery mark their ways,
and the way of peace they do not know."
"There is no fear of God before their eyes." (romans 3:10-18 quoting/referencing Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccles. 7:20; Psalm 5:9; Psalm 140:3; Psalm 10:7; Isaiah 59:7,8; Psalm 36:1)

ultimately, the bible does teach (i believe) that there is/was/nor will there be anyone righteous people apart from god.

not even "innocent" new born babies. we are all born under a curse.

ever wonder what happend to those babies at the time of the flood? they were not on the boat! there were eight on that ark: noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. that's it!

what is amazing to me is not that god has killed countless "innocent" children through the ages or even commanded that killing.

what is amazing to me is that he has extended grace to all of us- even the grossest sinner- (even me) and allowed any of us to live at all. that we are alive today is evident of god's grace. he is under no compulsion to allow any of us to live another second. but he does. because he is gracious.

not commanding the killing of children- per se- but the mass killing of children...

we don't often think about it but approximately 2,000 years after creation, we are told that god sent a world wide flood- destroying everything and everyone. after 2,000 years of breeding and living to be hundreds of years old, there must have been ten of millions of people alive. and millions of children.

but evidently only one person found favor with god- noah.

we are told that noah was a righteous man. the implication is that noah found favor because he was righteous. and that he was the only righteous one on the planet.

interestingly, "innocent" children are not mentioned. but then again:

As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one."
"Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their lips."
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery mark their ways,
and the way of peace they do not know."
"There is no fear of God before their eyes." (romans 3:10-18 quoting/referencing Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccles. 7:20; Psalm 5:9; Psalm 140:3; Psalm 10:7; Isaiah 59:7,8; Psalm 36:1)

ultimately, the bible does teach (i believe) that there is/was/nor will there be anyone righteous people apart from god.

not even "innocent" new born babies. we are all born under a curse.

ever wonder what happend to those babies at the time of the flood? they were not on the boat! there were eight on that ark: noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. that's it!

what is amazing to me is not that god has killed countless "innocent" children through the ages or even commanded that killing.

what is amazing to me is that he has extended grace to all of us- even the grossest sinner- (even me) and allowed any of us to live at all. that we are alive today is evident of god's grace. he is under no compulsion to allow any of us to live another second. but he does. because he is gracious.

what is amazing to me is that he has extended grace to all of us- even the grossest sinner

This I can agree with 100%. The grace of God is an amazing thing - and most amazing of all is what he went through to allow us to be cleansed of our sin, while still remaining righteous in his judgments.

On the question of the children, however, I think our viewpoints may diverge a little.

As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not even one;
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All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
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their tongues practice deceit."
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"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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(romans 3:10-18 quoting/referencing Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccles. 7:20; Psalm 5:9; Psalm 140:3; Psalm 10:7; Isaiah 59:7,8; Psalm 36:1)

Has a newborn baby turned away?
Does the tongue of a baby practice deceit?
Are their feet swift to shed blood?
Again, I think in the case of the flood the children were washed away as a mercy. Can you imagine Noah and his wife adopting every child in the world?
It's possible he even closed the wombs of every woman on earth for a few years, so that there were no babies at the time of the flood. He has closed the wombs of the wicked before:
Genesis 20:18 for the LORD had closed up every womb in Abimelech's household because of Abraham's wife Sarah.

We don't really know how many children may or may not have died in the flood, but we do know that the judgment of God is righteous, and he was angry with Israel when they tried to claim that the children were punished for the sins of their ancestors:

Ezekiel 18
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:
" 'The fathers eat sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

3 "As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. 4 For every living soul belongs to me, the father as well as the son—both alike belong to me. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
5 "Suppose there is a righteous man
who does what is just and right.
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9 He follows my decrees
and faithfully keeps my laws.
That man is righteous;
he will surely live,
declares the Sovereign LORD.
10 "Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these other things [b] 11 (though the father has done none of them):
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Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he will surely be put to death and his blood will be on his own head.
14 "But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things: ...edited for length...
He will not die for his father's sin; he will surely live. 18 But his father will die for his own sin, because he ... did what was wrong among his people.

19 "Yet you ask, 'Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?' Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live. 20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.
21 "But if a wicked man turns away from all the sins he has committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die. 22 None of the offenses he has committed will be remembered against him. Because of the righteous things he has done, he will live. 23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
24 "But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked man does, will he live? None of the righteous things he has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness he is guilty of and because of the sins he has committed, he will die. 25 "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? 26 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin, he will die for it; because of the sin he has committed he will die. 27 But if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life. 28 Because he considers all the offenses he has committed and turns away from them, he will surely live; he will not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Ezekiel says God judges each person for their own actions, and their own actions only. Not for Adam's actions, and not for Eve's actions, and not for their parent's actions. For their own. And he was rather upset at Israel for saying differently.
Those who are not yet old enough to make their own decisions and intentionally do what is wrong have no sin to be punished for.
Now it's true that every human who has lived long enough to make right or wrong choices has made some wrong choices and fallen from grace. Of those 'men' (adult humans) who are accountable for their actions, none are innocent. All have fallen short.
But I get the impression that Jesus considered children to be innocent. He called the children to himself and blessed them. He said that to enter the kingdom we must become like them.

That's why I don't think the children were punished for wickedness.
Because they were taken into eternal glory - how is that a punishment? More like a blessing. They got to skip over all the suffering they would have endured if they'd been forced to live on earth for a full lifetime.

That's the way I read it, anyway. I'm pretty sure I don't have it all worked out just yet.