Joshua 7:10–18

¹⁰So the Lord said to Joshua, “Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

¹¹“Israel has sinned, and ^athey have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of the things under the ban and have both stolen and deceived. Moreover, they have also put them among their own things.

¹²“Therefore the ^asons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their ¹backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst.

¹³“Rise up! ^aConsecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, “^bThere are things under the ban in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you have removed the things under the ban from your midst.”

¹⁴‘In the morning then you shall come near by your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which ^athe Lord takes by lot shall come near by families, and the family which the Lord takes shall come near by households, and the household which the Lord takes shall come near man by man.

¹⁵‘^aIt shall be that the one who is taken with the things under the ban shall be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he ^bhas committed a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”

The Sin of Achan

¹⁶So Joshua arose early in the morning and brought Israel near by ¹tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.

¹⁷He brought the family of Judah near, and he took the family of the Zerahites; and he brought the family of the Zerahites near man by man, and Zabdi was taken.

¹⁸He brought his household near man by man; and ^aAchan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, was taken.