John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 31:27

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And divide the prey into two parts, etc.] Into two equal parts, both the number of the people and of the cattle, when taken: between them that took the war upon them, and went out to battle; the soldiers; and by this it appears that they went voluntarily and cheerfully: and between all the congregation; so that the part of them that went to battle, and of those that stayed in the camp, were alike, and which in process of time became a statute and ordinance, (<093024>1 Samuel 30:24,25 <196812> Psalm 68:12).

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