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Selected Verse: Numbers 31:11 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Nu 31:11 |
King James |
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. |
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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The "prey" refers to the captives and live-stock: the "spoil" to the ornaments and other effects. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
All this booty (shalal, booty in goods), and all the prey in man and beast (malkoach), was brought by the conquerors to Moses and Eleazar and the congregation, into the camp in the steppes of Moab. In Num 31:12, שׁבי applies to the women and children who were taken prisoners, מלקוח to the cattle taken as booty, and שׁלל to the rest of the prey. |
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.