¹⁶Early the next morning Joshua brought Israel forward, tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was picked out. ¹⁷He brought the tribe of Judah forward, clan by clan, and the clan of Zerah was picked out. Then he brought the clan of Zerah forward, family by family, and the family of Zabdi was picked out. ¹⁸He then brought Zabdi’s family forward, one by one, and Achan, the son of Carmi and grandson of Zabdi, was picked out. ¹⁹Joshua said to him, “My son, tell the truth here before the Lord, the God of Israel, and confess. Tell me now what you have done. Don’t try to hide it from me.”

²⁰“It’s true,” Achan answered. “I have sinned against the Lord, Israel’s God, and this is what I did. ²¹Among the things we seized I saw a beautiful Babylonian cloak, about two kilogrammes of silver, and a bar of gold weighing over half a kilogramme. I wanted them so much that I took them. You will find them buried inside my tent, with the silver at the bottom.”

²²So Joshua sent some men, who ran to the tent and found that the condemned things really were buried there, with the silver at the bottom. ²³They brought them out of the tent, took them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and laid them down in the presence of the Lord. ²⁴Joshua, along with all the people of Israel, seized Achan, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, together with Achan’s sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys, and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned; and they took them to Trouble Valley. ²⁵And Joshua said, “Why have you brought such trouble on us? The Lord will now bring trouble on you!” All the people then stoned Achan to death; they also stoned and burnt his family and possessions. ²⁶They put a huge pile of stones over him, which is there to this day. That is why that place is still called Trouble Valley.

Then the Lord was no longer furious.

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