Quotes About Plunder

Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on Davidís head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

They had dedicated some of the plunder from their battles to the repair of the house of the LORD.

Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder

and attacked all the cities around Gerar, because the terror of the LORD had fallen upon them. They plundered all the cities, since there was much plunder there.

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and carried off many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from all the plunder they had brought back.

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.

Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.

He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of God with Obed-edom and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.

Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.

And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.

The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.