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The death of these "children" is something that readers of Robert Heinlein splash around as proof or Gods lack of compassion and proof that there is no God. "How could a good God do this? Just Children after all!" These were pretty certainly children of man with multiple wifes or wifes and concubines.
Elisha was facing the equivalent of something like Antifa or BLM, but as our news reports frequently, even young children are capable violence. (See Lord of the Flies.)