23 The people of Moab said, “Look at the blood! The kings must have fought against each other. They must have destroyed each other. Let’s go take the valuable things from the dead bodies!”
23 And they said: "It is the blood of the sword! The kings have fought among themselves, and they have slain one another. Go now, Moab, to the spoils!"
With my own hands I have taken the riches of all these people—like a person taking eggs from a bird’s nest. A bird often leaves its nest and eggs. And there is nothing to protect the nest. There is no bird to chirp and fight with its wings and beak. So people take the eggs. \{In the same way,\} there was no person to stop me from taking all the people on earth.”
Jehoshaphat and his army came to take valuable things from the bodies. They found many animals, riches, clothes, and valuable things. Jehoshaphat and his army took those things for themselves. The things were more than Jehoshaphat and his people could carry away. They spent three days taking away the valuable things from the dead bodies, because there was so much.
The Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the sound of chariots, [80] horses, and a large army. So the Aramean soldiers said to each other, “The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to come against us!”
“I’m sure they won the war
and they are now taking things
from the people they defeated!
They are dividing those things
among themselves!
Each soldier is taking a girl or two.
Maybe Sisera found a piece of dyed cloth.
That’s it!
Sisera found a piece of fancy cloth
—or maybe two—
for Sisera the Conqueror to wear.”
The Moabite people came to the Israelite camp. But the Israelites came out and attacked the Moabite army. The Moabite people ran away from the Israelites. The Israelites followed them into Moab to fight the Moabites.