‘Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who heated metal and shaped all kinds of tools made of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.
Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:
everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.
All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”
But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the Lord’s orders to Joshua.