The Book of Joshua (WEB)
7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of
Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the
anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel. 7:2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai,
which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy
out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai. 7:3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, Don't
let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; don't make
all the people to toil there; for they are but few. 7:4So there went up there of the people about three
thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. 7:5The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six
men; and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent;
and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. 7:6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the
earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they
put dust on their heads. 7:7Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you at all brought this people
over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we
had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! 7:8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has
turned their backs before their enemies! 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land
will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you
do for your great name? 7:10Yahweh said to Joshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen on your
face? 7:11Israel has sinned; yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded
them: yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also;
and they have even put it among their own stuff. 7:12Therefore the children of Israel can't stand
before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become
accursed: I will not be with you any more, except you destroy the devoted thing from among you.
7:13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel; you can not stand before
your enemies, until you take away the devoted thing from among you. 7:14In the morning therefore
you shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Yahweh takes shall
come near by families; and the family which Yahweh shall take shall come near by households;
and the household which Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man. 7:15It shall be, that he
who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has; because he has
transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done folly in Israel. 7:16So Joshua rose up
early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
7:17and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought
near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: 7:18and he brought near 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. 7:19Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God
of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from me.
7:20Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel,
and thus and thus have I done: 7:21when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, 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. 7:22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and
the silver under it. 7:23They took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and
to all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before Yahweh. 7:24Joshua, and all Israel with
him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his
sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he
had: and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. 7:25Joshua said, Why have you troubled us?
Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with
fire, and stoned them with stones. 7:26They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and
Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The
valley of Achor" to this day.
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