Deuteronomy 2:35 But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.

English Standard Version
Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured.

New American Standard Bible
"We took only the animals as our booty and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

King James Bible
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves.

International Standard Version
We only appropriated the livestock for our use, along with plunder from the cities that we captured.

American Standard Version
only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:

Darby Bible Translation
Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

Young's Literal Translation
only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:24-37 God tried his people, by forbidding them to meddle with the rich countries of Moab and Ammon. He gives them possession of the country of the Amorites. If we keep from what God forbids, we shall not lose by our obedience. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; and he gives it to whom he pleases; but when there is no express direction, none can plead his grant for such proceedings. Though God assured the Israelites that the land should be their own, yet they must contend with the enemy. What God gives we must endeavour to get. What a new world did Israel now come into! Much more joyful will the change be, which holy souls will experience, when they remove out of the wilderness of this world to the better country, that is, the heavenly, to the city that has foundations. Let us, by reflecting upon God's dealings with his people Israel, be led to meditate upon our years spent in vanity, through our transgressions. But happy are those whom Jesus has delivered from the wrath to come. To whom he hath given the earnest of his Spirit in their hearts. Their inheritance cannot be affected by revolutions of kingdoms, or changes in earthly possessions.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

24-36. Rise ye up … and pass over the river Arnon—At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone. At the date of the Israelitish migration to the east of the Jordan, the whole of the fine country lying between the Arnon and the Jabbok including the mountainous tract of Gilead, had been seized by the Amorites, who, being one of the nations doomed to destruction (see De 7:2; 20:16), were utterly exterminated. Their country fell by right of conquest into the hands of the Israelites. Moses, however, considering this doom as referring solely to the Amorite possessions west of Jordan, sent a pacific message to Sihon, requesting permission to go through his territories, which lay on the east of that river. It is always customary to send messengers before to prepare the way; but the rejection of Moses' request by Sihon and his opposition to the advance of the Israelites (Nu 21:23; Jud 11:26) drew down on himself and his Amorite subjects the predicted doom on the first pitched battlefield with the Canaanites. It secured to Israel not only the possession of a fine and pastoral country, but, what was of more importance to them, a free access to the Jordan on the east.