Joshua 7
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But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for 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.
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.
And 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.
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
And 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 the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
And 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.

rent

Genesis 37:29,34 And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the …

Numbers 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which …

2 Samuel 13:31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; …

Ezra 9:3-5 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and …

Esther 4:1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, …

Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell …

Acts 14:14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their …

fell

Numbers 16:22,45 And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits …

2 Samuel 12:16 David therefore sought God for the child; and David fasted, and went …

until the eventide

Judges 20:23,26 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until …

Judges 21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and stayed there till even …

2 Samuel 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and …

put dust Rending the clothes, beating the breast, tearing the hair, throw- ing dust upon the head, and falling prostrate, were usual signs of deep affliction and distress among the ancient Israelites. In illustration of this custom, see

1 Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh …

2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors …

Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel …

Esther 4:1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, …

Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they …

Ezekiel 27:30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry …

Jonah 3:6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, …

Micah 1:10 Declare you it not at Gath, weep you not at all: in the house of …

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore 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!
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Israel

Joshua 7:1,20,21 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: …

transgressed

Joshua 23:16 When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which …

Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD …

Judges 2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said…

2 Kings 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed …

Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because …

Isaiah 50:1,2 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …

Hosea 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they …

the accursed

Joshua 7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two …

Joshua 6:17-19 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, …

stolen

Malachi 3:8,9 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein …

Matthew 22:21 They say to him, Caesar's. Then said he to them, Render therefore …

dissembled

2 Kings 5:25,26 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, …

John 12:5,6 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor…

Acts 5:1,2,9 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession…

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…

among

Leviticus 5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy …

Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting …

Zechariah 5:4 I will bring it forth, said the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter …

Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the 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.
And 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 transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
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.
And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

My son

2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure …

Titus 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in …

James 1:20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

1 Peter 3:8,9 Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, …

give

1 Samuel 6:5 Why you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice …

Isaiah 13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the …

Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before …

Luke 17:18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

John 9:24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said to him, Give …

Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of …

make

Numbers 5:6,7 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit …

2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the …

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

Ezra 10:10,11 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have transgressed, …

Psalm 32:5 I acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, …

Psalm 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Proverbs 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with …

Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, …

Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth …

1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth …

tell me

1 Samuel 14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. And Jonathan …

Jonah 1:8-10 Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose cause this …

And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish 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.

I saw

Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that …

Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; …

2 Samuel 11:2 And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his …

Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?

Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken you me in your way.

Proverbs 23:31 Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color …

Proverbs 28:22 He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that …

Matthew 5:28,29 But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her …

1 John 2:15,16 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If …

Babylonish garment Addereth shindir, `a splendid or costly robe of Shinar,' the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shown at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted.

Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, …

wedge [heb] tongue
I coveted

Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your …

Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall …

1 Kings 21:1,2 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite …

2 Kings 5:20-27 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my …

Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …

Romans 7:7,8 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not …

Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not …

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, …

1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with …

2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following …

took them

Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Micah 2:1,2 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …

James 1:15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when …

they are hid

2 Samuel 11:6-17 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab …

2 Kings 5:24,25 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and …

Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with …

Isaiah 29:15 Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and …

Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither …

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
And 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.

laid them out [heb] poured

And 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 the valley of Achor.
And Joshua said, Why 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 stoned them with stones.

Why hast

Joshua 7:11-13 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which …

Joshua 6:18 And you, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest …

Genesis 34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me to make me …

1 Kings 18:17,18 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, …

1 Chronicles 2:7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed …

Habakkuk 2:6-9 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting …

Galatians 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

2 Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation …

Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …

all Israel

Leviticus 20:2 Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever he be of …

Leviticus 24:14 Bring forth him that has cursed without the camp; and let all that …

Deuteronomy 13:10 And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has …

Deuteronomy 17:5 Then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed …

Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he …

Deuteronomy 22:21-24 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's …

burned

Joshua 7:15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall …

Genesis 38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, …

Leviticus 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall …

Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing …

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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