◄ 1 Samuel 30:24 ►
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Good News Translation
No one can agree with what you say! All must share alike: whoever stays behind with the supplies gets the same share as the one who goes into battle."

New Revised Standard Version
Who would listen to you in this matter? For the share of the one who goes down into the battle shall be the same as the share of the one who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike.”

Contemporary English Version
Who would pay attention to you, anyway? Soldiers who stay behind to guard the camp get as much as those who go into battle.

New American Bible
Who could agree with this proposal of yours? Rather, the share of the one who goes down to battle shall be the same as that of the one who remains with the baggage—they share alike.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.

Numbers 31:27 And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.

Joshua 22:8 He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to your settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.

Psalm 68:12 The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.

tarrieth

1 Samuel 25:13 Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two hundred remained with the baggage.

Context
The Spoils are Divided
…23But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these things, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath delivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands: 24And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.25And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was made a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.…
Cross References
Numbers 31:27
And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.

Joshua 22:8
He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to your settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.

1 Samuel 25:13
Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two hundred remained with the baggage.

1 Samuel 30:23
But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these things, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath delivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands:

1 Samuel 30:25
And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was made a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.

Psalm 68:12
The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.

1 Samuel 30:23
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