Psalms 68:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 68:12

Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

KJV

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ASV

Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.

WEB

“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.

YLT

Kings of hosts flee utterly away, And a female inhabitant of the house apportioneth spoil.

DBT

Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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23 verses on the floor

1 Samuel 30:24
For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
Joshua 10:16
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Psalms 76:12
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Judges 5:19
The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
Revelation 19:17–20
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;

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God spoke in his holiness, and then Gilead is mine. That they had prophets, as God's messengers, to make known his mind to them. God gave them his word ( the word of the Lord came unto them) and then great was the company of the preachers --prophets and prophetesses, for the word is feminine.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Kings of armies--that is, with their armies. she that . . . at home--Mostly women so remained, and the ease of victory appears in that such, without danger, quietly enjoyed the spoils.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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