Deuteronomy 20:14

but the women, children, cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil, thou shalt make booty for thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God will have given thee.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

In Context

13And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thy hand, thou mayest smite all the males thereof by the sentence of the sword;

15Thus shalt thou do to all cities which are remote from thee, but are not of the cities of these nations;

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Cross References

Numbers 31:12and brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Mosheh, and to Elazar the priest, and to all the congregation of the Beni Israel, to the camp in the fields of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho.

Numbers 31:35persons, women who had not known man, every soul thirty-two thousand.

Deuteronomy 2:35Only the cattle was a booty to us, and the spoil of the cities which we subdued.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 20:11-20

Proclamations of War; Directions Concerning War. ( b. c. 1451.) 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 13 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou… Read the whole commentary →

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