THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
They presented the plunder to the Lord and shared the remainder among themselves.
Numbers 31:53Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.
אַנְשֵׁי֙ הַצָּבָ֔א בָּזְז֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ לֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 20:14Excepting 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.
- Num 31:32And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,