Joshua 7

7But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for ^a||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. ²And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside ^bBeth-aven, on the east side of ^cBeth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. ³And 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. ⁴So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and ^dthey fled before the men of Ai. ⁵And 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 ^ethe hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

⁶And Joshua ^frent 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 ^gput dust upon their heads. ⁷And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, ^hwherefore 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! ⁸O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their ^†backs before their enemies! ⁹For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and ⁱcut off our name from the earth: and ^jwhat wilt thou do unto thy great name? ¹⁰And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore ^†liest thou thus upon thy face? ¹¹Israel hath sinned, and they have also ^ktransgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of ^lthe accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. ^12mTherefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their ⁿbacks before their enemies, because they were ^oaccursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy ^othe accursed from among you. ¹³Up, sanctify the people, and say, ^pSanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is ^oan accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away ^othe accursed thing from among you. ¹⁴In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which ^qthe 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. ^15rAnd 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 ^stransgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought ^||folly in Israel.

¹⁶So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: ¹⁷And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of ^tthe Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: ¹⁸And he brought his household man by man; and ^uAchan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, ^vwas taken. ¹⁹And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, ^wgive, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and ^xmake confession unto him; and ^ytell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. ²⁰And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: ²¹When I saw among the spoils a goodly ^zBabylonish 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. ²²So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. ²³And 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. ²⁴And 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 ^athe valley of Achor. ²⁵And Joshua said, ^bWhy 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 ^cstoned them with stones. ²⁶And they ^draised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So ^ethe Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, ^fThe valley of ^||Achor, unto this day.