Quotes about Booty

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

72,000 cattle,

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

The result of the British war is a source of anxiety. For it is ascertained that the approaches to the island are protected by astonishing masses of cliff. Moreover, it is now known that there isn't a pennyweight of silver in that island, nor any hope of booty except from slaves, among whom I don't[Pg 283] suppose you can expect any instructed in literature or music.

30,500 donkeys,

Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

They seized the livestock of the Hagrites—50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took 100,000 captives,