Psalms 68:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.”
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““Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Kings of hosts flee utterly away, And a female inhabitant of the house apportioneth spoil.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 68:12 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:25He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”
- Numbers 31:8Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
- Numbers 31:27Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.
- Numbers 31:54And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.
- Joshua 10:16Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
- Joshua 10:42And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
- Joshua 12:7And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
- Judges 5:19Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
- Judges 5:30‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil— a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’
- 1 Samuel 30:24Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.”
- Revelation 6:15Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- Revelation 19:17Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
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