Joshua 7
The Sin of
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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.
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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to
A'i, which is beside Beth-a'ven, on the east side of Beth-el,
and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men
went up and viewed A'i.
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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 A'i; and make not all the people
to labor thither; for they are but few.
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So there went up thither of the people
about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of
A'i.
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And the men of A'i smote of them about
thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Sheba'rim, and smote them in the going down:
wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as
water.
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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.
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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!
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O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel
turneth their backs before their enemies!
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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?
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And the LORD said
unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy
face?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So Joshua rose up early in the morning,
and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was
taken:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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And Achan answered Joshua, and said,
Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of
Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
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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.
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So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran
unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the
silver under it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, 2 unto
this day.
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