They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
And carried away sheep and camels in abundance. 'Driving away the cattle and sheep of a conquered people, and accounting them among the principal spoil, has ever been the custom of Eastern nations, who have not altogether renounced a nomadic life, and whose chief wealth consequently consisted in these animals' ('Nineveh and Babylon,' p. 633).