10 occurrences

'Plunder' in the Bible

The LORD will go to court to oppose the elders and princes of his people: "You're the ones who have been devouring the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your own houses!

Verse ConceptsPlunderingWicked RulersVineyardMetaphorical VineyardsRulers, Wicked

for before the young lad knows how to call out to his father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards DamascusLimitations Of Youthdamascus

to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans!

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

I'm sending my fury against a godless nation, and I'll command him against the people with whom I'm angry to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

But they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west, and they will plunder the people to the east. They'll lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AmmonThe Prophecy Towards Edom

When the evening arrives, watch out sudden terror! By morning they will be there no longer! So it will be for those who plunder us and what will happen to those who rob us."

Verse ConceptsMorningAt Morning And EveningFear Will Cometerrorism

Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingHarvestCaterpillarsLocusts

"Your rigging hangs loose; it cannot reliably hold the mast in its place, and the sail cannot spread out. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided even the lame will carry off plunder.

Verse ConceptsShipsDividing The Spoil

"Can they seize plunder from warriors, or can the captives of tyrants be rescued?

But this is what the LORD says: "He will seize even the warriors' plunder, and the captives of tyrants will be rescued. I myself will quarrel with those who have a quarrel with you, and I myself will save your children.

Verse ConceptsBlood, Figurative UsePromises To Stand on

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Badger (10 instances)
Booty (57 instances)
Despoil (8 instances)
Forage (1 instance)
Foray (1 instance)
Pillage (4 instances)
Plunder (143 instances)
Prize (15 instances)
Ransack (2 instances)

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