Joshua Chapter 7

Joshua Chapter 7
1 But the children of Israel committed a
trespass in the excommunicate thing: for
Achan the son of Carmi, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of
Judah took of the excommunicate thing:
wherefore the wrath of the Lord was
kindled against the children of Israel.
2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to
Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the
east side of Bethel, and spake unto them,
saying, Go up, and view the country.
And the men went up, and viewed Ai,
3 And returned to Joshua, and said unto
him, Let not all the people go up, but let
as it were two or three thousand men go
up, and smite Ai, and make not all the
people to labor thither, for they are few.
4 So there went up thither of the people
about three thousand men, and they fled
before the men of Ai.
5 And the men of Ai smote of them upon
a thirty and six men: for they chased
them from before the gate unto Shebarim,
and smote them in the going down:
wherefore the hearts of the people
melted away like water.
6 Then 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 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God,
wherefore hast thou brought this people
over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand
of the Amorites, and to destroy us?
would God we had been content to
dwell on the other side Jordan. 8 Oh
Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turn
their backs before their enemies?
9 For the Canaanites, and all the
inhabitants of the land shall hear of it,
and shall compass us, and destroy our
name out of the earth: and what wilt thou
do unto thy mighty name?
10 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get
thee up: wherefore liest thou thus upon
thy face?
11 Israel hath sinned, and they have
transgressed my covenant, which I
commanded them: for they have even
taken of the excommunicate thing, and
have also stolen, and dissembled also,
and have put it even with their own stuff.
12 Therefore the children of Israel
cannot stand before their enemies, but
have turned their backs before their
enemies, because they be execrable:
neither will I be with you any more,
except ye destroy the excommunicate
from among you.
13 Up therefore, sanctify the people,
and say, Sanctify yourselves against
tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, There is an execrable thing
among you, O Israel, therefore ye cannot
stand against your enemies, until ye have
put the execrable thing from among you.
14 In the morning therefore ye shall
come according to your tribes, and the
tribe which the Lord taketh, shall come
according to the families: and the family
which the Lord shall take, shall come by
the households: and the household which
the Lord shall take, shall come man by
man.
15 And he that is taken with the
excommunicate thing, shall be burned
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.
16 So Joshua rose up early in the
morning and brought Israel by their
tribes: and the tribe of Judah was taken.
17 And he brought the families of Judah,
and took the family of the Zarhites, and
he brought the family of the Zarhites,
man by man, and Zabdi was taken. 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. 19 Then Joshua
said unto Achan, My son, I beseech thee,
give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and
make confession unto him, and show me
now what thou hast done: hide it not
from me.
20 And Achan answered Joshua, and
said, Indeed, I have sinned against the
Lord God of Israel, and thus, and thus
have I done.
21 I saw among the spoil a goodly
Babylonish garment, and two hundred
shekels of sliver, and a wedge of gold of
fifty shekels weight, and I coveted them,
and took them: and behold, they lie hid
in the earth in the midst of my tent, and
the silver under it.
22 Then Joshua sent messengers, which
ran unto the tent, and behold, it was hid
in his tent, and the silver under it.
23 Therefore they took them out of the
tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and
unto all the children of Israel, and laid
them before the Lord. 24 Then Joshua
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 all
Israel with him brought them unto the
valley of Achor.
25 And Joshua said, In as much as thou
hast troubled us, the Lord shall trouble
thee this day: and all Israel threw stones
at him, and burned them with fire, and
stoned them with stones.
26 And they cast upon him a great heap
of stones unto this day: and so the Lord
turned from his fierce wrath: therefore
he called the name of that place, The
valley of Achor, unto this day.