These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joshua 7
Tanakh 26 verses
- 1 But the children of committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of , took of the devoted thing; and the anger of was kindled against the children of .
- 2 And sent men from to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spoke unto them, saying: ‘Go up and spy out the land.’ And the men went up and spied out Ai.
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And they returned to , and said unto him: ‘Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few.’
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So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of Ai.
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And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men; and they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
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- 6 And rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his before the of until the evening, he and the elders of ; and they put dust upon their heads.
- 7 And said: ‘Alas, O , wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over the , to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the !
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Oh, , what shall I say, after that hath turned their backs before their enemies!
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- 9 For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land of it, they will compass us round, and cut off our from the earth; and what wilt Thou do for Thy great ?’
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And said unto : ‘Get thee up; wherefore, now, art thou fallen upon thy ?
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hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed My which I commanded them; yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing; and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have even put it among their own stuff.
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- 12 Therefore the children of cannot stand before their enemies, they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed; I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
- 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say: Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus saith , the of : There is a in the midst of thee, O ; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
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In the morning therefore ye shall draw near by your tribes; and it shall be, that the tribe which taketh shall come near by families; and the family which shall take shall come near by households; and the household which shall take shall come near man by man.
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- 15 And it shall be that he that is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath transgressed the of , and because he hath wrought a wanton deed in .’
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So rose up early in the morning, and brought near by their tribes; and the tribe of was taken.
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And he brought near the family of ; and he took the family of the Zerahites. And he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken.
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And 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 , was taken.
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And said unto Achan: ‘My son, give, I pray thee, to , the of , and make confession unto Him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide nothing from me.’
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1 Samuel 6:5 John 9:24 Jeremiah 13:16 2 Chronicles 30:22 1 Samuel 14:43 Numbers 5:6-7 Daniel 9:4 1 Peter 3:8-9 Proverbs 28:13 Romans 10:10 Psalm 32:5 Jonah 1:8-10 2 Timothy 2:25 Jeremiah 3:12-13 Ezra 10:10-11 Isaiah 13:12 Titus 2:2 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 Psalm 51:3 Luke 17:18 James 1:20 1 John 1:8-10 Revelation 16:9 -
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And Achan answered , and said: ‘Of a I have sinned against , the of , and thus and thus have I done.
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When I saw among the spoil a goodly Shinar mantle, 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.’
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Luke 12:15 Isaiah 29:15 Psalm 119:37 James 1:15 2 Peter 2:15 1 John 2:15-16 Deuteronomy 7:25 2 Samuel 11:6-17 Colossians 3:5 Exodus 20:17 2 Samuel 11:2 2 Kings 5:20-27 Genesis 3:6 Romans 7:7-8 Genesis 10:10 Isaiah 28:15 Micah 2:1-2 Genesis 6:2 Ephesians 5:5 Habakkuk 2:9 Hebrews 13:5 Job 31:1 Ephesians 5:3 Luke 12:2 1 Kings 21:1-2 Proverbs 23:31 Matthew 5:28-29 Proverbs 28:22 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Proverbs 4:23 - 22 So sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
- 23 And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them unto , and unto all the children of ; and they laid them down before .
- 24 And , and all with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, 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 up unto the valley of Achor.
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And said: ‘Why hast thou troubled us? shall trouble thee this day.’ And all stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
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Joshua 6:18 1 Chronicles 2:7 Leviticus 20:2 Leviticus 24:14 Joshua 7:11-13 Deuteronomy 17:5 Habakkuk 2:6-9 Deuteronomy 21:21 1 Kings 18:17-18 2 Thessalonians 1:6 Hebrews 12:15 Joshua 7:15 Deuteronomy 13:10 Genesis 38:24 Leviticus 21:9 Galatians 5:12 Genesis 34:30 Deuteronomy 22:21-24 Leviticus 20:14 - 26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones, unto this day; and turned from the fierceness of His anger. Wherefore the of that place was called The valley of Achor, unto this day.