Deuteronomy 20:14

Overview - Deuteronomy 20
The priest's exhortation to encourage the people to battle.
The officers' proclamation of who are to be dismissed from the war.
10 How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace.
16 What cities must be devoted.
19 Trees of man's meat must not be destroyed in the siege.
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Deuteronomy 20:14  (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.
 


the women
Numbers 31:9 Numbers 31:12 Numbers 31:18 Numbers 31:35-54 ; Joshua 8:2 ; 11:14 2 Chronicles 14:13-15 ; 20:25 Psalms 68:12
Romans 8:37

take unto thyself
Hebrew spoil. thou shalt eat.
Joshua 22:8