Question XXXV. Of what kind [was] the Jericho anathema?

It would have to be reckoned general, were it not that, first, from the anathema of persons, Rahab was excepted, with all [her] kinsfolk and household whom her house contained; and, from the anathema of things, the metals and all metal objects [were excepted]. Otherwise, all the men of the whole city — women too, old men, boys, and young men — were all slain; likewise all the cattle; the buildings, and whatever of the city still stood, were burned — so that, in the same fire, all the corpses both of the slain men and of the cattle were burned up, and likewise all the garments, and the furnishings which were devoid of metal. See above, q. 23.