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Deuteronomy 20:14
But you may take the women, dependents, animals, and whatever else is in the city— all its spoil— as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
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Joshua 6:21
They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword— every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
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2 Chronicles 20 22
The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set an ambush against the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir who came to fight against Judah, and they were defeated.
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Joshua 10:28
On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it down with the sword, including its king. He completely destroyed it and everyone in it, leaving no survivors. So he treated the king of Makkedah as he had the king of Jericho.
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Joshua 8:7
you are to come out of your ambush and seize the city. The LORD your God will hand it over to you.
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Jeremiah 51:12
Raise up a signal flag against the walls of Babylon; fortify the watch post; set the watchmen in place; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both planned and accomplished what he has threatened against those who live in Babylon.
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Psalms 39:6
Yes, a person goes about like a mere shadow. Indeed, they rush around in vain, gathering possessions without knowing who will get them.
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Joshua 8:12
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
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Proverbs 28:20
A faithful person will have many blessings, but one in a hurry to get rich will not go unpunished.
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Joshua 8:14
When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, the men of the city hurried and went out early in the morning so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle at a suitable place facing the Arabah. But he did not know there was an ambush waiting for him behind the city.
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Luke 12:20-21
“ But God said to him,‘ You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared— whose will they be?’“ That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
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Job 27:16-17
Though he piles up silver like dust and heaps up fine clothing like clay—he may heap it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide up his silver.
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2 Chronicles 13 13
Now Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to advance from behind them. So they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
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Joshua 10:1
Now King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and completely destroyed it, treating Ai and its king as he had Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them.
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Joshua 8:27-29
Israel plundered only the cattle and spoil of that city for themselves, according to the LORD’s command that he had given Joshua.Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today.He hung the body of the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.
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Joshua 8:19
When he held out his hand, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They ran, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
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Jeremiah 17:11
He who makes a fortune unjustly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay. In the middle of his life his riches will abandon him, so in the end he will be a fool.
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Judges 20:29-33
So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.On the third day the Israelites fought against the Benjaminites and took their battle positions against Gibeah as before.Then the Benjaminites came out against the troops and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the troops as before, killing about thirty men of Israel on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah through the open country.The Benjaminites said,“ We are defeating them as before.” But the Israelites said,“ Let’s flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”So all the men of Israel got up from their places and took their battle positions at Baal-tamar, while the Israelites in ambush charged out of their places west of Geba.
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Deuteronomy 3:2
But the LORD said to me,‘ Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’
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Joshua 8:9
So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.
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Joshua 8:24
When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.