Excesses of zealotry have time and time again pushed populations into violent revolt, which became part of general revolts that overthrew the perpetrating governments. The only discernible effect among human leaders was to install Orwellian name changes and continue the practice full blast, creating successor revolts in an endless sequence that continues to harm individuals and societies alike. These are a few examples. The episode described in Judges had it's roots in the Israelites trying to commit genocide against the Benjamites. They fought back so hard that the rest of Israel kidnaped and gave them girls to use for breeders.
Civil war is implicit in the story.
The Moses story was a variation of Exposure that had it's roots in the Egyptians stealing children from Israelite slaves to get them away from resistant parents. Take special note that the resistance and eventual civil war was supported by Egyptians who occupied positions at the highest levels of government. If a tenth of the kids were dead that the Feds claim, unidentified bodies would be piled to the ceilings in every morgue in the country. As happens today, they added to the turmoil of the times and hastened the decline of the Roman Empire. Exposure left a permanent scar on the human psyche.