Psalm 68:12 {67:13}
Good News Translation
"Kings and their armies are running away!" The women at home divided what was captured:

New Revised Standard Version
“The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil,

Contemporary English Version
"Kings and their armies retreated and ran, and everything they left is now being divided.

New American Bible
The kings of the armies are in desperate flight. Every household will share the spoil,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.

kings

Exodus 14:25 And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against us.

Numbers 31:8,9,54 And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. . . .

Joshua 10:16,42 For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda. . . .

Joshua 12:7,8 These are the kings of the land, whom Joshua and the children of Israel slew beyond the Jordan on the west side from Baalgad in the field of Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up into Seir: and Joshua delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one their divisions, . . .

Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanac, by the waters of Mageddo and yet they took no spoils.

Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains:

Revelation 19:17-20 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: . . .

did flee apace [heb.

Numbers 31:27 And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.

1 Samuel 30:24 And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
11The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings with great power. 12The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.13If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.…
Cross References
Joshua 10:16
For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda.

Judges 5:19
The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanac, by the waters of Mageddo and yet they took no spoils.

Judges 5:30
Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the women is chosen out for him: garments of divers colours are given to Sisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped together to adorn necks.

1 Samuel 30:24
And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.

Psalm 135:11
Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan.

Psalm 68:11
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