Joshua 22:8

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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.

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  • Num 31:27 : 27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:
  • 1 Sam 30:24 : 24 Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same.
  • 2 Chr 17:5 : 5 So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.
  • 2 Chr 32:27 : 27 And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.
  • Ps 68:12 : 12 Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
  • Heb 11:26 : 26 Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
  • Deut 8:9-9 : 9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper. 10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day: 12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them; 13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort; 14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
  • Deut 8:17-18 : 17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth. 18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
  • 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 22:6-7
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    6Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.

    7Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing,

  • Josh 22:9
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    9So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.

  • Josh 22:4
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    4And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.

  • Josh 1:12-15
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    12And to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,

    13Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said to you, The Lord your God is sending you rest and will give you this land.

    14Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be kept here in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but you, the fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers, armed, to give them help;

    15Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.

  • Deut 3:18-20
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    18At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

    19But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

    20Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.

  • Num 31:26-27
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    26Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:

    27And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

  • Josh 7:22
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    22So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.

  • Num 31:11-12
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    11They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

    12And 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.

  • Josh 8:27
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    27But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.

  • Josh 22:1
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    1Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

  • Deut 29:8
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    8And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.

  • Josh 22:15
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    15And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,

  • Deut 20:14
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    14But 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.

  • Num 31:53-54
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    53(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)

    54Then 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.

  • Judg 8:25
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    25And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.

  • Num 32:22
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    22And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
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    15And 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.

  • Exod 3:22
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    22For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the Egyptians.

  • Num 32:29-30
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    29And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:

    30But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.

  • Josh 21:2
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    2And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

  • Deut 8:13
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    13And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

  • 2 Chr 28:14
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    14So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.

  • Josh 18:8
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    8So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.

  • Num 31:42
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    42And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

  • Deut 5:30
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    30Now say to them, Go back to your tents.

  • Num 32:32
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    32We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

  • Deut 3:7
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    7But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.

  • Gen 34:29
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    29And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

  • Num 32:1
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    1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;

  • Josh 7:24
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    24Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.

  • Josh 8:2
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    2And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 7:8
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    8And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.

  • Josh 17:17
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    17Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only,

  • 1 Sam 17:53
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    53Then the children of Israel came back from going after the Philistines, and took their goods from the tents.

  • 2 Chr 20:25
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    25And 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.

  • Deut 1:8
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    8See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Num 31:32
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    32Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,