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The Israelites were not permitted to take of the spoil.

To the victor goes the spoils, you may have heard.

Not in this instance.

They were not permitted to take of the spoil of Jericho.

But as you'll see, as we continue this series through the Book of Joshua, they were permitted to take and take and plunder and plunder all these other

treasures of every other major city in battle that they encounter. It is only Jericho right up front at the beginning that Israel's commanded

to entrust those things to the Lord, to devote much of it to destruction, and the devoted

things within Jericho, those things of gold and silver, to take those things and devote them to the

Lord, to bring them into the

treasury of the Lord. They are not allowed to personally increase in their wealth because

of their victory of Jericho. Part of what we're meant to take from that is the principle of giving

first fruits to the Lord. Here they are at the beginning of their

conquest into the land of promise, long been wandering in the wilderness as sojourners, now

crossed the Jordan River, entering the land of promise, also, I might add, still as sojourners,

but not sojourners waiting for God to beam them out, but sojourners, strangers and aliens,

waiting to conquer the land. They've just now entered into the promised land, their inheritance,

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