“I saw in the spoil a beautiful, many–colored carpet and two hundred didrachmas of silver and one golden tongue–shaped object of fifty didrachmas, and I coveted them and took them. And look, they are hidden in the ground in my tent, and the silver is hidden underneath them” (NETS).
Just a small prize for my labor. I deserve it, right? It would have been destroyed otherwise. What’s the harm?
It was a direct disobedience (cf. Josh 6:17-18).
Brian P. Baucom 