Deuteronomy 2:35 BSB

Deuteronomy 2:35

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

KJV

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rise ye up . . . and pass over the river Arnon--At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רַ֥ק	rak	only	H7535 →
הַבְּהֵמָ֖ה	ha.be.he.Mah	the livestock	H929 →
בָּזַ֣זְנוּ	ba.Zaz.nu	we plundered	H962 →
לָ֑נוּ	La.nu	for ourselves
וּשְׁלַ֥ל	u.she.Lal	and [the] booty of	H7998 →
הֶעָרִ֖ים	he.'a.Rim	the cities	H5892 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לָכָֽדְנוּ׃	la.Kha.de.nu	we had captured	H3920 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joshua 8:27
Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
leads to
- Joshua 8:2
  And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joshua 11:4
  So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.
- Numbers 31:26
  “You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.
- Matthew 20:15
  Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Through
Deuteronomy 20:14
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
leads to
- Joshua 22:8
  saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”
- Numbers 31:9
  The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
- Numbers 31:12
  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.
- 2 Chronicles 20:25
  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…

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