Divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.
“The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil,
though they stay among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.
“You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the ancestral houses of the congregation make an inventory of the booty captured, both human and animal.
he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth, and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with a great quantity of clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your kindred.”
Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept, until they had no more strength to weep.