Quotes about Spoils

The answer to the big question we have proposed is really quite easy and straightforward. What is God up to right here, right now? Redemption! He is actively working on sin's final defeat and our complete deliverance. He is working out the spoils of the victory that Christ accomplished on the cross of Calvary.

They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.

and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

72,000 cattle,

61,000 donkeys,

This was the half portion for those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,

From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,

30,500 donkeys,