Spoils
4 lines · 10 passages
- (Plunder, booty)
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Of war
Gen 14:11, 12; Num 31:9, 10; Deut 2:35
11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
Genesis 14:1112 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 14:129 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Numbers 31:910 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Numbers 31:1035 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
Deuteronomy 2:35 -
Divided between the combatants and non-combatants of the Israelites, including priests and Levites
Num 31:25–54; 1 Sam 30:24
25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: 27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: 28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: 29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD. 30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD. 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, 33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, 34 And threescore and one thousand asses, …
Numbers 31:25 …24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
1 Samuel 30:24 -
Dedicated to the Lord
1 Sam 15:15; 1 Chr 26:27; 2 Chr 15:11
15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Samuel 15:1527 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 26:2711 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles 15:11
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
