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JOS-7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the
accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,
the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed
thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the
children of Israel.
JOS-7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is]
beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them,
saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and
viewed Ai.
JOS-7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not
all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go
up and smite Ai; [and] make not all the people to labour thither;
for they [are but] few.
JOS-7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three
thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
JOS-7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men:
for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto
Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts
of the people melted, and became as water.
JOS-7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon
his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and
the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
JOS-7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou
at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the
hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been
content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
JOS-7:8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their
backs before their enemies!
JOS-7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land
shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our
name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
JOS-7:10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore
liest thou thus upon thy face?
JOS-7:11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the
accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and
they have put [it] even among their own stuff.
JOS-7:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before
their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies,
because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more,
except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
JOS-7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There
is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst
not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed
thing from among you.
JOS-7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according
to your tribes: and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the LORD
taketh shall come according to the families [thereof]; and the
family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and
the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
JOS-7:15 And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the
accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath:
because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and
because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
JOS-7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought
Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
JOS-7:17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the
family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the
Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
JOS-7:18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the
son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe
of Judah, was taken.
JOS-7:19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee,
glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him;
and tell me now what thou hast done; hide [it] not from me.
JOS-7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have
sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
done:
JOS-7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment,
and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty
shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold,
they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the
silver under it.
JOS-7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent;
and, behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
JOS-7:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and
brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel,
and laid them out before the LORD.
JOS-7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son
of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold,
and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses,
and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they
brought them unto the valley of Achor.
JOS-7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD
shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with
stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them
with stones.
JOS-7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto
this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger.
Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor,
unto this day.
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