1But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of that which was accursed. For Achan, the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children of Israel.

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Joshua 22:20, Joshua 22:20, 1 Chronicles 2:6, 1 Chronicles 2:7, Ecclesiastes 9:18

2And when Joshua sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed Hai.

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Joshua 18:12, Joshua 18:12, Hosea 4:15, 1 Samuel 13:5, 1 Samuel 14:23

3And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few?

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Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 6:12, Luke 13:24

4There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,

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Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 28:25, Leviticus 26:17, Leviticus 26:17, Deuteronomy 32:30

5And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.

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Joshua 2:11, Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:11, Joshua 2:9, Leviticus 26:36

6But Joshua rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before the ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.

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Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:34, Genesis 37:34, 2 Samuel 13:31

7And Joshua said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began.

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2 Kings 3:10, Hebrews 12:5, 2 Kings 3:10, Hebrews 12:5, Joshua 1:2

8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?

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Romans 3:5, Romans 3:6, Romans 3:5, Romans 3:6, Ezra 9:10

9The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

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Exodus 32:12, Exodus 32:12, Ezekiel 36:22, Ezekiel 36:23, Psalms 83:4

10And the Lord said to Joshua: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?

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Exodus 14:15, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 15:22, Exodus 14:15, 1 Samuel 16:1

11Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among their goods.

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Acts 5:1, Acts 5:2, Acts 5:1, Acts 5:2, Joshua 6:17

12Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.

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Psalms 5:4, Psalms 5:5, Psalms 5:4, Psalms 5:5, Isaiah 59:2

13Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness.

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Lamentations 3:40, Lamentations 3:41, Lamentations 3:40, Lamentations 3:41, Joshua 3:5

14And you shall come in the morning, every one by your tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds, and the kindred by its houses and tho house by the men.

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Proverbs 16:33, Proverbs 16:33, Joshua 7:17, Joshua 7:18, Jonah 1:7

15And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.

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Genesis 34:7, Genesis 34:7, Judges 20:6, 1 Samuel 14:38, 1 Samuel 14:39

16Joshua, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to come by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found.

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Ecclesiastes 9:10, Joshua 3:1, Psalms 119:60, Genesis 22:3, Ecclesiastes 9:10

17Which being brought by in families, it was found to be the family of Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi:

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Numbers 26:20, Numbers 26:20, 1 Chronicles 2:4, 1 Chronicles 2:7, Genesis 38:30

18And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan, the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda.

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Numbers 32:23, Numbers 32:23, Acts 5:1, Acts 5:10, Acts 5:1

19And Joshua said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.

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1 Samuel 6:5, 1 Samuel 6:5, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 13:16, John 9:24

20And Achan answered Joshua, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

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Psalms 38:18, Psalms 38:18, 1 Samuel 15:30, Matthew 27:4, Exodus 10:16

21For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and two hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.

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James 1:15, James 1:15, Psalms 119:37, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:16

22Joshua therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found all hid in the same place, together with the silver.

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23And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.

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24Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan, the son of Zare, and the silver, and the garment, and the golden rule, his sons also, and his daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, the tent also, and all the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:

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Proverbs 15:27, Proverbs 15:27, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Timothy 6:9

25Where Joshua said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire.

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Joshua 6:18, Joshua 6:18, 1 Chronicles 2:7, 1 Chronicles 2:7, Deuteronomy 17:5

26And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day And the wrath of the Lord was turned away from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of Achor, until this day.

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Hosea 2:15, Isaiah 65:10, Hosea 2:15, Isaiah 65:10, Deuteronomy 13:17