Exodus 15:9

New American Bible - revised edition

The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them; I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them; I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”

Cross References

Genesis 49:27

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; mornings he devours the prey, and evenings he distributes the spoils.” Farewell and Death.

2 Samuel 22:38

I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till I destroyed them.

1 Kings 19:2

Jezebel then sent a messenger to Elijah and said, “May the gods do thus to me and more, if by this time tomorrow I have not done with your life what was done to each of them.”

1 Kings 20:10

Ben-hadad then responded, “May the gods do thus to me and more, if there will remain enough dust in Samaria to make handfuls for all my followers.”

Exodus 14:5

When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart about the people. “What in the world have we done!” they said. “We have released Israel from our service!”

Proverbs 16:19

It is better to be humble with the poor than to share plunder with the proud.

Isaiah 36:20

Who among all the gods of these lands ever rescued their land from my power, that the Lord should save Jerusalem from my power?”

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will give him his portion among the many, and he shall divide the spoils with the mighty, Because he surrendered himself to death, was counted among the transgressors, Bore the sins of many, and interceded for the transgressors.

Jeremiah 46:17

Give Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the name “Braggart-missed-his-chance.”

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced his head with your shafts; his princes you scattered with your stormwind, as food for the poor in unknown places.

Luke 11:22

But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils.

Judges 5:30

“They must be dividing the spoil they took: a slave woman or two for each man, Spoil of dyed cloth for Sisera, spoil of ornate dyed cloth, a pair of ornate dyed cloths for my neck in the spoil.”

1 Samuel 30:8

David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue these raiders? Can I overtake them?” The Lord answered him: Go in pursuit, for you will certainly overtake them and bring about a rescue. Raid on the Amalekites.