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They consented willingly enough, spreading a cloak out on the ground and throwing all their spoil of ear-rings down on it; (Judges 8, 25)
Wherever he went, he ravaged the country-side, leaving neither man nor woman alive; then he would carry off sheep and ox and ass and camel and garments as his spoil, and so return to Achis. (1 Samuel 27, 9)
When David reached Siceleg, he sent presents to the elders of the neighbouring cities in Juda, bidding them accept his offering taken out of the spoil of the Lord’s enemies. (1 Samuel 30, 26)
Soon David’s men, with Joab at their head, came home from an attack on the freebooters, loaded with spoil. They did not find Abner in Hebron; David had but now sent him on his way in peace; (2 Samuel 3, 22)
Bloodshed! they cried; the kings have fallen out with one another and come to blows; men of Moab, there lies the spoil! (2 Kings 3, 23)
David took the crown from Melchom’s image, which he found to be of a full talent’s weight, set with the rarest jewels, and made himself a crown out of it; much spoil he took from the city besides. (1 Chronicles 20, 2)
and sacrificed to the Lord that day, out of their spoil and out of the cattle they had driven away, seven hundred bulls and seven thousand rams. (2 Chronicles 15, 11)
So Josaphat and his men went down to strip them of their spoil, and found there, among the dead, such plunder of harness and clothes and precious ornaments as they could not carry with them; it was three days before all the booty was taken away. (2 Chronicles 20, 25)
and so with one voice they made appeal to the Lord, the God of Israel. Were they to see their children slaves, their women-folk allotted as spoil, their cities razed, their sanctuary profaned? Were they to become the scorn of the Gentiles? (Judith 4, 10)
thou didst mark down their wives for spoil, their daughters for slavery, their goods as forfeit, to reward the men who had thy honour at heart. Listen now, O Lord my God, to a widow’s prayer. (Judith 9, 3)
to send fire through our country-side, put our warriors to the sword, mark down our children for slavery, our maidens for spoil. (Judith 16, 6)
As for Judith, she kept none of Holofernes’ spoil, that the people had given her, nor the canopy she had carried off from his banqueting-room, for herself; she offered them up as a thing forfeit.✻ (Judith 16, 23)
