Booty @ captives or cattle or objects of value taken in war. In Canaan all that breathed were to be destroyed Deuteronomy:20:16). The "pictures and images" of the Canaanites were to be destroyed also Numbers:33:52). The law of booty as to its division is laid down in Numbers:31:26-47. David afterwards introduced a regulation that the baggage-guard should share the booty equally with the soldiers engaged in battle. He also devoted of the spoils of war for the temple ( 1Samuel:30:24-26; 2Samuel:8:11; 1Chronicles:26:27).
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