Joel 3:3
And they have gcast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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Obadiah 1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
It was customary with conquerors to divide the captives by lot, and so did these enemies of the Jews, Ob 11; and so did the Chaldeans on the captive Ninevites, Nah 3:10: though this was grievous, yet it was the common lot of captives.
either procured a boy to bestow on some harlot or other which they kept, or gave a boy, instead of money, the price of an harlot to be enjoyed by lewd soldiers.
a young girl, which, being captive, fell to their lot, they have valued at a base, low price, and sold
that they might drink; so much as at one sitting one of them could drink; or perhaps for one draught of wine, when the barbarous soldier was dry or minded to be drunk.