Numbers 31:53 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

This verse seems to imply that the soldiers, as distinct from the officers (compare Numbers 31:49), did not make any offering from their plunder. Of course besides the gold there would be much spoil of less precious materials; see Numbers 31:20, Numbers 31:22.

Numbers 31:53

53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)