Joshua 7:7-26 ▼

7 And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord YHWH, why did You ever cause this people to pass over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorite, to destroy us? And if only we had been content and had stayed on the other side of the Jordan!

8 O my Lord, what shall I say now that Israel has turned its back before the face of its enemies?

9 For the Canaanite and all those dwelling in the land will hear it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”

10 And YHWH said to Joshua, “Get up, for you—why is this—you are falling on your face?

11 Israel has sinned and also they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and also they have taken from the devoted thing, and both have stolen and deceived, and also they have put it among their vessels.

12 And the sons of Israel are not able to stand before the faces of their enemies; the backs are turned before the faces of their enemies, because they have become devoted to destruction. Not anymore will I be with you?, if you? do not destroy the devoted thing from among you?.

13 Get up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says YHWH, God of Israel: A devoted thing is among you, O Israel. You are not able to stand before the faces of your enemies until your? turning aside of the devoted thing from among you?.

14 And you? shall be brought near in the morning according to your? tribes, and it shall come to pass that the tribe that YHWH takes shall come according to the clans, and the family that YHWH takes shall come by the houses, and the house that YHWH takes shall come by the man.

15 And it shall be that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with the fire, he and all that is unto him, because he has transgressed the covenant of YHWH, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

16 And Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.

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

18 And he brought his house by the man, and Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

19 And Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give, please, glory to YHWH, God of Israel, and make to Him confession and tell now me what you have done. Do not hide it from me.”

20 And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Truly I have sinned against YHWH, God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

21 And I saw among the spoils one beautiful cloak of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, and I coveted them and took them, and there they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver is under it.”

22 And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was hidden in his tent, and the silver under it.

23 And they took them from the midst of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons of Israel, and poured them out before the face of YHWH.

24 And Joshua took Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, and the cloak, and the wedge of the gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that was unto him, and all Israel with him, and they brought them to the Valley of Achor.

25 And Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? YHWH will trouble you this day!” And all Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with the fire after they had stoned them with stones.

26 And they raised up over him a great heap of stones, to this day. And YHWH turned from the burning of His anger. Upon thus has been called the name of that place the Valley of Achor, to this day.