THEOSISDeuteronomy 20:14Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
רַ֣ק הַ֠נָּשִׁים וְהַטַּ֨ף וְהַבְּהֵמָ֜ה וְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בָעִ֛יר כָּל־שְׁלָלָ֖הּ תָּבֹ֣ז לָ֑ךְ וְאָֽכַלְתָּ֙ אֶת־שְׁלַ֣ל אֹיְבֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֛ן יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לָֽךְ׃
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- Josh 8:2And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and all the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.
- Josh 22:8He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to your settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.
- Num 31:9And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they plundered:
- Num 31:35And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.
- Num 31:54And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.
- Num 31:18But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:
- Rom 8:37But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.
- Ps 68 (67):12