Numbers 31:27

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Divide 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.”
  • 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.
  • 1 Sam 30:24-25 : 24 Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!” 25 From that time onward it was a binding ordinance for Israel, right up to the present time.
  • Ps 68:12 : 12 Kings leading armies run away– they run away! The lovely lady of the house divides up the loot.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:25-26
    2 verses
    87%

    25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    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.

  • Num 31:28-30
    3 verses
    83%

    28“You must exact a tribute for the LORD from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.

    29You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.

    30From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

  • Num 31:40-44
    5 verses
    82%

    40The people were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 people.

    41So Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

    42From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

    43there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,

    4436,000 cattle,

  • Num 31:53-54
    2 verses
    79%

    53Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

    54So 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.

  • Num 31:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

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

    12They 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 31:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,

    3372,000 cattle,

  • Num 31:46-47
    2 verses
    76%

    46and 16,000 people.

    47From 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.

  • 1 Sam 30:24
    76%

    24Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!”

  • Num 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;

    37the LORD’s tribute from the sheep was 675.

  • Num 31:2-5
    4 verses
    75%

    2“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites– after that you will be gathered to your people.”

    3So Moses spoke to the people:“Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

    4You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel.”

    5So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 28:14
    74%

    14So the soldiers released the captives and the plunder before the officials and the entire assembly.

  • Num 7:5
    74%

    5“Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires.”

  • Deut 20:14
    74%

    14However, 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.

  • Deut 3:7
    73%

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

  • Num 34:18
    73%

    18You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

  • Num 26:2
    73%

    2“Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.”

  • Josh 22:8
    73%

    8saying,“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.”

  • Deut 2:35
    73%

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

  • Num 34:29
    73%

    29These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:9
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 21:10
    72%

    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 31:21
    72%

    21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle,“This is the ordinance of the law that the LORD commanded Moses:

  • Exod 32:27
    72%

    27and he said to them,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said‘Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

  • Num 1:3
    72%

    3You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions.

  • 2 Chr 31:19
    72%

    19As for the descendants of Aaron, the priests who lived in the outskirts of all their cities, men were assigned to disburse portions to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed in the genealogical records.

  • Num 32:27
    72%

    27but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the LORD’s presence, just as my lord says.”

  • 1 Chr 26:27
    72%

    27They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the LORD’s temple.

  • Josh 18:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.

    6But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the LORD our God.

  • Deut 29:8
    71%

    8Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

  • Ezek 47:21
    71%

    21“This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.

  • Num 18:31
    71%

    31And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

  • Num 32:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20Then Moses replied,“If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

    21and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence

  • Josh 8:27
    71%

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