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Personal Spoils of War
Commentators explain that this verse distinguishes between the main, officially counted booty and the personal plunder that each soldier took for himself. This helps clarify the context for the offerings mentioned in the surrounding verses, as it specifies that soldiers had their own spoils.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 31:53
18th Century
Theologian
This verse seems to imply that the soldiers, as distinct from the officers (), did not make any offering from their plunder. Of course, besides the…
John Gill
On Numbers 31:53
17th Century
Pastor
For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself . ] And which he kept for himself, and did not deliver in with …
Matthew Henry
On Numbers 31:48–54
17th Century
Minister
The success of the Israelites had been very remarkable���so small a company overcoming such multitudes���but it was still more wonderful that not o…