Deuteronomy 20:14

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However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.

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  • Josh 8:2 : 2 Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”
  • Josh 22:8 : 8 saying,“Take home great wealth, a lot of cattle, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers.”
  • Num 31:9 : 9 The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.
  • Num 31:12 : 12 They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the rift valley plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho.
  • Num 31:18 : 18 But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.
  • Num 31:35-54 : 35 and 32,000 young womenwho had not experienced a man’s bed. 36 The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep; 37 the LORD’s tribute from the sheep was 675. 38 The cattle numbered 36,000; the LORD’s tribute was 72. 39 The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61. 40 The people were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 people. 41 So Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. 42 From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men, 43 there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community, 44 36,000 cattle, 45 30,500 donkeys, 46 and 16,000 people. 47 From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle, just as the LORD commanded Moses. 48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders over thousands and the commanders over hundreds, approached Moses 49 and said to him,“Your servants have taken a count of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, and not one is missing. 50 So we have brought as an offering for the LORD what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.” 51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all of it in the form of ornaments. 52 All the gold of the offering they offered up to the LORD from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds weighed 16,750 shekels. 53 Each soldier had taken plunder for himself. 54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 14:13-15 : 13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; they were shattered before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried off a huge amount of plunder. 14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the LORD caused them to panic. The men of Judah looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods. 15 They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 20:25 : 25 Jehoshaphat and his men went to gather the plunder; they found a huge amount of supplies, clothing, and valuable items. They carried away everything they could. There was so much plunder, it took them three days to haul it off.
  • Ps 68:12 : 12 Kings leading armies run away– they run away! The lovely lady of the house divides up the loot.
  • Rom 8:37 : 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
  • Josh 11:14 : 14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

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  • Deut 20:11-13
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    11If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.

    12If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

    13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.

  • Deut 20:15-17
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    15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

    16Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

  • Deut 2:34-35
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    34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

    35We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

  • Deut 3:6-7
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    6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.

    7But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

  • Josh 8:27
    80%

    27But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in keeping with the LORD’s orders to Joshua.

  • Deut 13:15-16
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    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

    16You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.

  • Deut 21:10
    79%

    10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

  • Num 31:9-11
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    78%

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Deut 3:19
    78%

    19But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

  • Gen 34:28-29
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    77%

    28They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

    29They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

  • Josh 11:14
    76%

    14The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

  • Josh 6:21
    76%

    21They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

  • 1 Sam 30:20
    75%

    20David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying,“This is David’s plunder!”

  • Josh 8:2
    75%

    2Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”

  • Josh 1:14
    75%

    14Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. You must help them

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

    18But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.

  • Deut 19:1
    74%

    1Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

  • Josh 8:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The LORD your God will hand it over to you.

    8When you capture the city, set it on fire in keeping with the Lord’s message. See, I have given you orders.”

  • Zech 14:2
    74%

    2For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away.

  • Num 31:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

    27Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war– who went out to battle– and the other for all the community.

  • Judg 21:11
    73%

    11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.

  • Num 18:14
    73%

    14“Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.

  • Josh 10:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! Don’t allow them to retreat to their cities, for the LORD your God is handing them over to you.”

    20Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

  • Deut 7:2
    73%

    2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

  • Deut 28:51
    73%

    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • Deut 7:16
    73%

    16Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

  • Deut 1:39
    73%

    39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    73%

    15They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 38:12
    73%

    12to loot and plunder, to attack the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center of the earth.”

  • Deut 29:11
    73%

    11your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    72%

    3So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

  • Deut 20:20
    72%

    20However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

  • Neh 9:24
    72%

    24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    72%

    2They took captive the women and all who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.