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1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the destroyed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the destroyed thing: and the anger of Jehovah 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 spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
3 And they returned to Joshua, and said to 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 labor; for they are but few.
4 So there went up, of the people, about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
5 And the men of Ai struck of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them in the going down: therefore the minds of the people melted, and became as water.
6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the Earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening event, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
7 And Joshua said, Alas, Oh Lord GOD, Why have you 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!
8 Oh Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us around, and cut off our name from the Earth: and what will you do to your great name?
10 And Jehovah said to Joshua, Get you up; Why do you lie thus upon your face?
11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the destroyed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were destroyed: neither will I be with you any more, except you destroy the destroyed from among you.
13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says Jehovah God of Israel, There is an destroyed thing in the midst of you, Oh Israel: you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the destroyed thing from among you.
14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Jehovah takes shall come according to the families; and the family which Jehovah shall take shall come by households; and the household which Jehovah shall take shall come man by man.
15 And it shall be, that he who is taken with the destroyed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and because he has 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 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:
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 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to Jehovah God of Israel, and make confession to Him; and tell me now what you have done; hide it not from me.
20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against Jehovah God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
21 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 desired them, and took them; and, they are hidden in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver is under it.
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, it was hidden in his tent, and the silver under it.
23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before Jehovah.
24 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 donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of Achor.
25 And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, to this day.