In ancient times, and in the times of King James, it was understood that you had to kill sometimes. Everybody killed to eat. They killed when attacked by other hostile nations. They killed to defend themselves against bandits. It was understood that "shalt not kill" meant "shalt not murder."
Yes and no... There were multiple words for "to kill" and the original word in hebrew is to kill in the sense of murder https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7523.htm "ratsach" (raw-tsakh') רָצַח to murder, slay
It's like in the law, there's a difference between, murder and manslaughter. And there are also different types of categories of manslaughter
Murder implies 'malice aforethought' to begin with, it's not an accident nor self defense
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