Bible Verses About Spoils

and 16,000 persons -

from the people of Isra'el's half, Moshe took one-fiftieth of the persons and animals and gave them to the L'vi'im taking care of the tabernacle of ADONAI, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

The officers in charge of the thousands who fought, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, approached Moshe

and said to him, "Your servants have counted all the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.

We have brought an offering for ADONAI, what every man has obtained in the way of gold jewelry -armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and belts -to make atonement for ourselves before ADONAI."

Moshe and El'azar the cohen accepted their gold, all the jewelry.

All the gold in this gift which the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds set apart for ADONAI weighed 420 pounds.

For the soldiers had taken booty, every man for himself.

Moshe and El'azar the cohen took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a reminder for the people of Isra'el before ADONAI.

As booty for ourselves we took only the cattle, along with the spoil from the cities we had captured.

Sha'ul said, "They brought them from the 'Amaleki, because the people spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to ADONAI your God. But we completely destroyed the rest."

Anyhow, no one agrees with you about this. No, the share of someone who stays with the equipment will be the same as the share of someone who goes out and fights - they will share equally."

From the spoil won in wars they had dedicated these things to repair the house of ADONAI.

That day they sacrificed to ADONAI 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil they had brought;