'Men of War' in the Bible

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:

Levy a tax for the Lord from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

Now the booty that remained from the spoil which the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep,

and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.