6 occurrences

'Loot' in the Bible

to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

Verse ConceptsFraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression

I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

They will swoop down on the Philistine hills to the west; together they will loot the people of the east. They will take over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AmmonThe Prophecy Towards Edom

In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

Verse ConceptsMorningAt Morning And EveningFear Will Cometerrorism

Though at this time your ropes are slack, the mast is not secured, and the sail is not unfurled, at that time you will divide up a great quantity of loot; even the lame will drag off plunder.

Verse ConceptsShipsDividing The Spoil

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, "Bring that back!"

Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

Bible Theasaurus

Pillage (4 instances)
Plunder (143 instances)
Prize (15 instances)
Ransack (2 instances)
Scratch (1 instance)
Shekels (93 instances)
Strip (44 instances)

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