Numbers 31:9
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.
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- Num 31:15-16 : 15 Moses said to them,“Have you allowed all the women to live? 16 Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!
- Deut 20:14 : 14 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.
- 2 Chr 28:5 : 5 The LORD his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him.
- 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it back to Samaria. 9 Oded, a prophet of the LORD, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them:“Look, because the LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. 10 And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
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- Num 31:10-123 verses84%
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.
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.
- Gen 34:28-292 verses81%
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.
- Num 31:7-82 verses80%
7They fought against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
8They killed the kings of Midian in addition to those slain– Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba– five Midianite kings. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
- Num 31:1-33 verses79%
1The Midianite War The LORD spoke to Moses:
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.
- Deut 20:13-142 verses78%
13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
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 3:6-72 verses77%
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.
- Num 31:17-182 verses77%
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.
- 1 Sam 30:2-32 verses76%
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.
3When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.
- Deut 2:34-352 verses76%
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.
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8The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it back to Samaria.
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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,
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15Moses said to them,“Have you allowed all the women to live?
- Judg 6:1-55 verses75%
1Oppression and Confrontation The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD turned them over to Midian for seven years.
2The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.
3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
4They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.
5When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.
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17“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,
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53Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.
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32The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,
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21They seized the Hagrites’ animals, including 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took captive 100,000 people.
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9Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
- Judg 21:10-112 verses73%
10So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors against Jabesh Gilead. They commanded them,“Go and kill with your swords the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.
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.
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27But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in keeping with the LORD’s orders to Joshua.
- Num 31:26-272 verses73%
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.
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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.
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23Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh answered the call and chased the Midianites.
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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!”
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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.
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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.
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6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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42From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,
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53When the Israelites returned from their hot pursuit of the Philistines, they looted their camp.