But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against the children of Israel. Jos 22:20Ecc 9:181Ch 2:6-71Ch 21:7Jos 22:18Jos 7:20-21Jon 1:7Jos 22:16 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” Jos 18:121Sa 13:51Sa 14:23Hos 4:15Gen 12:8Mat 10:16Pro 20:18Pro 24:6
The men went up and spied out Ai. They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.” Heb 6:11-122Pe 1:102Pe 1:5Heb 4:11Luk 13:24Pro 13:4Pro 21:25 So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai. Deu 28:25Lev 26:17Deu 32:30Isa 30:17Isa 59:2 The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water. Jos 2:11Jos 2:9Lev 26:36Deu 1:44Ezk 21:7Isa 13:7Jos 5:1Nam 2:10 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the LORD’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. Gen 37:29Gen 37:342Sa 13:31Lam 2:10Num 14:6Rev 18:19Act 14:14Est 4:1 Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! Heb 12:52Ki 3:10Exo 14:11-12Exo 16:3Exo 17:3Exo 5:22-23Jer 12:1-2Jos 1:2-4 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies? Rom 3:5-6Ezr 9:10Hab 2:1 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?” Exo 32:12Ezk 36:22-23Psa 83:4Jhn 12:28Deu 9:28Jol 2:17Num 14:13Psa 124:2-3
The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that? 1Sa 16:1Exo 14:151Ch 22:161Sa 15:22 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff. Act 5:1-2Heb 4:13Jos 6:17-19Act 5:9Jos 7:20-212Ki 18:122Ki 5:25-26Deu 17:2 Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. Psa 5:4-5Isa 59:2Jdg 2:14Jos 6:18Num 14:45Deu 7:26Hag 2:13-14Hab 1:13 Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for the LORD, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.” Lam 3:40-41Jos 3:51Co 5:11-13Mat 7:5Jos 6:18Jos 7:111Co 5:1-62Ch 28:10 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which the LORD selects shall come near by families. The family which the LORD selects shall come near by households. The household which the LORD selects shall come near man by man. Pro 16:33Jon 1:7Jos 7:17-181Sa 10:19-211Sa 14:38-42Act 1:24-26 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the LORD’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’” Gen 34:71Sa 14:38-39Jdg 20:6Deu 13:15-16Jos 7:25-261Sa 26:212Sa 13:13Jos 7:11
So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected. Ecc 9:10Gen 22:3Jos 3:1Psa 119:60 He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected. Num 26:201Ch 2:4-7Gen 38:30 He brought near 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 selected. Num 32:23Act 5:1-101Sa 14:42Jer 2:26Pro 13:21 Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!” 1Sa 6:5Jer 13:16Jhn 9:241Sa 14:432Ch 30:22Dan 9:4Num 5:6-71Jn 1:8-10
Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. Psa 38:181Sa 15:241Sa 15:30Exo 10:16Gen 42:21Job 33:27Job 7:20Mat 27:4 When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels 1 of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.” Jas 1:151Jn 2:15-16Luk 12:15Psa 119:372Pe 2:15Deu 7:251Ti 6:9-102Ki 5:20-27
So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before the LORD. Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. Pro 15:271Ti 6:9-10Exo 20:5Hos 2:15Isa 65:10Jos 15:7Jos 7:26Num 16:27-31 Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. Jos 6:181Ch 2:7Deu 17:5Lev 24:14Jos 7:11-13Lev 20:21Ki 18:17-182Th 1:6 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day. Hos 2:15Isa 65:10Deu 13:172Sa 18:17Jos 7:24Jos 8:29Lam 3:532Sa 21:14