Numbers 31:9

American Standard Version (1901)

And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

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  • Num 31:15-16 : 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.
  • Deut 20:14 : 14 but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
  • 2 Chr 28:5 : 5 Wherefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up to heaven. 10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but] are there not even with you trespasses of your own against Jehovah your God? [

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  • Num 31:10-12
    3 verses
    84%

    10And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

    11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.

    12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    81%

    28They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;

    29and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house.

  • Num 31:7-8
    2 verses
    80%

    7And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they slew every male.

    8And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

    2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

    3And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah's vengeance on Midian.

  • Deut 20:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • Deut 3:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

    7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

    18But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • 1 Sam 30:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2and had taken captive the women [and all] that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.

    3And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

    35only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

  • 2 Chr 28:8
    75%

    8And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

  • Deut 21:10
    75%

    10When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

  • Num 31:15
    75%

    15And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

  • Judg 6:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

    1And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

    2And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

    3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

    4and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

    5For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

  • Num 25:17
    74%

    17Vex the Midianites, and smite them;

  • Num 31:53
    73%

    53([ For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

  • Num 31:32
    73%

    32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    73%

    21And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand.

  • Ps 83:9
    73%

    9Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

  • Judg 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

    11And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

  • Josh 8:27
    73%

    27Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

  • Num 31:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;

    27and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation.

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.

  • Judg 7:23
    72%

    23And the men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.

  • 1 Sam 30:20
    72%

    20And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    72%

    15They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Neh 9:24
    72%

    24So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.

  • Num 31:42
    71%

    42And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred

  • 1 Sam 17:53
    71%

    53And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.