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But all the silver, gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
Joshua 6:19 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
  • BSB For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”
  • NKJV But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”
  • NASB But all the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”
  • NLT Everything made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron is sacred to the Lord and must be brought into his treasury.”

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Quick answer

Silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron were holy to Yahweh and were to go into His treasury. These valuables belonged to God, not to the soldiers.

Overview

Rather than being plundered for personal gain, Jericho's precious metals were reserved for the Lord's treasury as holy. This set the city apart as firstfruits offered wholly to God. The instruction tested whether Israel would honor God's exclusive claim, a test Achan would tragically fail.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • 1 Chr 26:20Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
  • Matt 27:6The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
  • Mark 12:41Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
  • Neh 10:38The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.
  • 2 Kgs 24:13He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.
  • 1 Chr 18:11King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
  • 2 Sam 8:11King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;
  • 1 Kgs 7:51Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.
  • 2 Chr 31:12They brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was second.
  • 2 Chr 15:18He brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.
  • 1 Chr 26:26This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
  • 1 Kgs 14:26and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
  • 1 Chr 26:28All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.
  • Neh 7:70–71Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.
  • Mic 4:13Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
  • 1 Chr 28:12and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
  • Lev 19:24But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.
  • Jer 38:11So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
  • Zech 14:20–21In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
  • Isa 23:17–18It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
  • Num 31:22however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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