Verse 14
But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.
Referenced Verses
- Josh 8:2 : 2 And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.
- Josh 22:8 : 8 And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.
- Num 31:9 : 9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;
- Num 31:12 : 12 And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
- Num 31:18 : 18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
- Num 31:35-54 : 35 And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man. 36 And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep, 37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five. 38 The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two; 39 The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one. 40 And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons. 41 And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 42 And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men, 43 (Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep, 44 And thirty-six thousand oxen, 45 And thirty thousand, five hundred asses, 46 And sixteen thousand persons;) 47 Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 48 Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses, 49 And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present; 50 And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord. 51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments. 52 And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels. 53 (For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.) 54 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.
- 2 Chr 14:13-15 : 13 And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods. 14 And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them. 15 And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chr 20:25 : 25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.
- Ps 68:12 : 12 Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.
- Rom 8:37 : 37 But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.
- Josh 11:14 : 14 And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.