Deuteronomy 20:14

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Deuteronomy 20:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.

14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

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Numbers 31:9

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

Numbers 31:12

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 31:18

but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

Numbers 31:35

and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.

Numbers 31:36

This was the half portion for those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,

Numbers 31:37

including a tribute to the LORD of 675,

Numbers 31:38

36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,

Numbers 31:39

30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,

Numbers 31:40

and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.

Numbers 31:41

Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 31:42

From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,

Numbers 31:43

this half belonged to the congregation: 337,500 sheep,

Numbers 31:44

36,000 cattle,

Numbers 31:45

30,500 donkeys,

Numbers 31:46

and 16,000 people.

Numbers 31:47

From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.

Numbers 31:48

Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and of hundreds—approached Moses

Numbers 31:49

and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.

Numbers 31:50

So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

Numbers 31:51

So Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.

Numbers 31:52

All the gold that the commanders of thousands and of hundreds presented as an offering to the LORD weighed 16,750 shekels.

Numbers 31:53

Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

Numbers 31:54

And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

Joshua 8:2

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

Joshua 11:14

The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.

2 Chronicles 14:13

Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder

2 Chronicles 14:14

and attacked all the cities around Gerar, because the terror of the LORD had fallen upon them. They plundered all the cities, since there was much plunder there.

2 Chronicles 14:15

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and carried off many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 20:25

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables —more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

Psalms 68:12

“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Joshua 22:8

saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”