But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.
You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured.
Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.
But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.