Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the Lord that he had issued to Joshua.
For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
“You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the ancestral houses of the congregation make an inventory of the booty captured, both human and animal.
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
But all the livestock and the plunder of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.
They came out, with all their troops, a great army, in number like the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its livestock you may take as booty for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city, behind it.”
So Joshua burned Ai, and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.