The Spoils of War
Genesis 49:27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.
Exodus 15:9 The enemy boasted, I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.
Numbers 31:11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals,
Numbers 31:12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Deuteronomy 2:35 But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.
Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.
Deuteronomy 13:16 Gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.
Deuteronomy 20:14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.
Joshua 7:21 When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.
Joshua 8:2 You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.
Joshua 8:27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the LORD had instructed Joshua.
Joshua 11:14 The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.
Joshua 22:8 saying, Return to your homes with your great wealth with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing and divide with your brothers the plunder from your enemies.
Judges 5:30 Are they not finding and dividing the spoils: a girl or two for each man, colorful garments as plunder for Sisera, colorful garments embroidered, highly embroidered garments for my neck all this as plunder?
Judges 8:24 And he said, I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder. (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)
Judges 8:25 They answered, Well be glad to give them. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
1 Samuel 14:30 How much better it would have been if the men had eaten today some of the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?
1 Samuel 14:32 They pounced on the plunder and, taking sheep, cattle and calves, they butchered them on the ground and ate them, together with the blood.
1 Samuel 15:19 Why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the LORD?
1 Samuel 15:21 The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.
1 Samuel 30:16 He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.
1 Samuel 30:19 Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.
1 Samuel 30:20 He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, This is Davids plunder.
1 Samuel 30:22 But all the evil men and troublemakers among Davids followers said, Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.
1 Samuel 30:26 When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends, saying, Here is a present for you from the plunder of the LORDs enemies.
2 Samuel 3:22 Just then Davids men and Joab returned from a raid and brought with them a great deal of plunder. But Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, because David had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
2 Samuel 8:12 Edom and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek. He also dedicated the plunder taken from Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
2 Samuel 12:30 He took the crown from the head of their king its weight was a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones and it was placed on Davids head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city
2 Kings 3:23 Thats blood! they said. Those kings must have fought and slaughtered each other. Now to the plunder, Moab!
1 Chronicles 20:2 David took the crown from the head of their king its weight was found to be a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones and it was placed on Davids head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city
1 Chronicles 26:27 Some of the plunder taken in battle they dedicated for the repair of the temple of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 14:13 and Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. Such a great number of Cushites fell that they could not recover; they were crushed before the LORD and his forces. The men of Judah carried off a large amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 15:11 At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought back.
2 Chronicles 20:25 So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it.
2 Chronicles 24:23 At the turn of the year, the army of Aram marched against Joash; it invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
2 Chronicles 28:8 The Israelites took captive from their kinsmen two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:15 The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow countrymen at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.
Esther 3:13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the kings provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews young and old, women and little children on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
Esther 8:11 The kings edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate any armed force of any nationality or province that might attack them and their women and children; and to plunder the property of their enemies.
Psalms 68:12 Kings and armies flee in haste; in the camps men divide the plunder.
Psalms 119:162 I rejoice in your promise like one who finds great spoil.
Proverbs 1:13 we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
Proverbs 16:19 Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.
Isaiah 8:4 Before the boy knows how to say My father or My mother, the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 9:3 You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder.
Isaiah 10:2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Isaiah 10:6 I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
Isaiah 33:4 Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts men pounce on it.
Isaiah 33:23 Your rigging hangs loose: The mast is not held secure, the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Jeremiah 49:32 Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be booty. I will scatter to the winds those who are in distant places and will bring disaster on them from every side, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:10 So Babylonia will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill, declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:21 I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it.
Ezekiel 29:19 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army.
Ezekiel 38:12 I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.
Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?
Daniel 11:24 When the richest provinces feel secure, he will invade them and will achieve what neither his fathers nor his forefathers did. He will distribute plunder, loot and wealth among his followers. He will plot the overthrow of fortresses but only for a time.
Zechariah 2:9 I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.
Zechariah 14:1 A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided among you.
The only exceptions:
In the following, the NIV chose not a literal translation, but a paraphrase. The Hebrew literally refers to being given ones life as the spoils of war, which the NIV paraphrases escape with ones life.
Jeremiah 21:9 Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; he will escape with his life.
Jeremiah 38:2 This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Babylonians will live. He will escape with his life; he will live.
Jeremiah 39:18 I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 45:5 Should you then seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.
The only other time the NIV deviates is:
Proverbs 31:11 Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
The following is every occurrence of the word used in Proverbs 31:11. In each verse the English translation of the Hebrew word is highlighted.