Deuteronomy 3:7
in Deuteronomy 3But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.
KJV
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
we captured all sixty of his cities
on Deuteronomy 3:4-7
All sixty cities fall, "fortified with high walls and gates and bars". The generation that refused the land had reported cities "large and fortified" at Numbers 13:28, and their children take sixty such cities.
This site's exposition
all the livestock and plunder
As with Sihon's cities in 2:35, the livestock and goods were kept as Israel's own. John Gill lists oxen, sheep, camels and donkeys, gold and silver, household furnishings and stores of grain. The herds taken here help explain verse 19, where Moses says the eastern tribes have much livestock.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities,.... The oxen and sheep, camels and asses; their gold and silver, and the furniture of their houses; their stores of corn, and of other fruits of the earth, even all their substance of whatsoever kind: we took for a prey to ourselves; made them their own property, and used them for their own profit and service, whereby they became greatly enriched.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַבְּהֵמָ֛ה | habehemah | the livestock | H929 → | 190 times |
| וּשְׁלַ֥ל | ushelal | and [the] booty of | H7998 → | 73 times |
| הֶעָרִ֖ים | hearim | the cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ | bazonu | we plundered | H962 → | 43 times |
| לָֽנוּ׃ | lanu | for ourselves |
וְכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
הַבְּהֵמָ֛הthe livestock
habehemahH929 →190 times
וּשְׁלַ֥לand [the] booty of
ushelalH7998 →73 times
הֶעָרִ֖יםthe cities
hearimH5892 →1090 times
בַּזּ֥וֹנוּwe plundered
bazonuH962 →43 times
לָֽנוּ׃for ourselves
lanu
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Joshua 8:27Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
it 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…
- 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?’
- Numbers 31:22
Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
- Joshua 8:2
Through
Deuteronomy 2:35We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
it leads to
- Numbers 31:9–11
The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
- Joshua 8:27
Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
- 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.
- Numbers 31:9–11
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.