Chapter
7
- 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.
- 7:2
- And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven,
on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and
view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
- 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.
- 7:4
- So there went up thither of the people about three thousand
men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 7:8
- O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs
before their enemies!
- 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?
- 7:10
- And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest
thou thus upon thy face?
- 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.
- 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.
- 7:13
- Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against
to morrow: 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 7:16
- So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel
by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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