Numbers 31:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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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 the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
  • 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 unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
  • 2 Chr 28:5 : 5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them 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 the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto 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 with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

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  • Num 31:10-12
    3 verses
    84%

    10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

    11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both] of men and of beasts.

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

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    81%

    28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field,

    29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that [was] in the house.

  • Num 31:7-8
    2 verses
    80%

    7 ¶ And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

    8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; [namely], Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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

    3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.

  • Deut 20:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

    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 unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

  • Deut 3:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

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

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • 1 Sam 30:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 And had taken the women captives, that [were] therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away, and went on their way.

    3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, [it was] burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

    35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

  • 2 Chr 28:8
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 21:10
    75%

    10 ¶ When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

  • Num 31:15
    75%

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

  • Judg 6:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

    1 ¶ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

    2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: [and] because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which [are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

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

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

    5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

  • Num 25:17
    74%

    17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

  • Num 31:53
    73%

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

  • Num 31:32
    73%

    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,

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    73%

    21 And 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 an hundred thousand.

  • Ps 83:9
    73%

    9 ¶ Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

  • Judg 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

    11 And 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%

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

  • Num 31:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    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:

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14 And 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 to breathe.

  • Judg 7:23
    72%

    23 ¶ And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.

  • 1 Sam 30:20
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    72%

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

  • Neh 9:24
    72%

    24 So 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 people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6 ¶ And, 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, who [were] weeping [before] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Num 31:42
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 17:53
    71%

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