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Dedicated to the Treasury
Commentators explain that all the precious metals from Jericho were consecrated for sacred use in the Lord's treasury, which was located in the tabernacle. This was not for the personal enrichment of the soldiers, reinforcing that this was a holy war, not a campaign for plunder. This practice followed a precedent set earlier with the spoils from the Midianites.
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Joshua
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Charles Ellicott
On Joshua 6:19
19th Century
Bishop
The silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron ... into the treasury of the Lord. —See Numbers 31:22-23;[Reference N…
John Gill
On Joshua 6:19
17th Century
Pastor
But all the silver and gold, and vessels of brass and iron ,
[are] consecrated to the Lord…
Matthew Henry
On Joshua 6:17–27
17th Century
Minister
Jericho was to be a solemn and dreadful sacrifice to God's justice, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So God decreed, from wh…