The people of Israel kept for themselves the animals and the other things the people of Ai had owned, as the Lord had commanded Joshua to do.
You will do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king. Only this time you may take all the wealth and keep it for yourselves. Now tell some of your soldiers to set up an ambush behind the city.”
I can do what I want with my own money. Are you jealous because I am good to those people?’
because every animal of the forest is already mine. The cattle on a thousand hills are mine.
So the armies of all these kings came together with their horses and chariots. There were as many soldiers as grains of sand on the seashore.
“You, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the family groups should take a count of the goods, the men, and the animals that were taken.
Put any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—
Then Joshua burned the city of Ai and made it a pile of ruins. And it is still like that today.
but we kept all the cattle and valuable things from the cities for ourselves.