Joshua 7:9   (Read all of Joshua 7)

The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. What then will you do for your own great name?"

Joshua 7:10   (Read all of Joshua 7)

The Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! What are you doing down on your face?

Joshua 7:11   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions.

Joshua 7:12   (Read all of Joshua 7)

That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.

Joshua 7:13   (Read all of Joshua 7)

"Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, 'Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow; for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are devoted things among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

Joshua 7:14   (Read all of Joshua 7)

" 'In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord chooses shall come forward clan by clan; the clan the Lord chooses shall come forward family by family; and the family the Lord chooses shall come forward man by man.

Joshua 7:15   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Whoever is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the Lord and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!' "

Joshua 7:18   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Joshua had his family come forward man by man, and Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was chosen.

Joshua 7:19   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and honor him. Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me."

Joshua 7:20   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Achan replied, "It is true! I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is what I have done:

Joshua 7:21   (Read all of Joshua 7)

When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

Joshua 7:22   (Read all of Joshua 7)

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.

Joshua 7:23   (Read all of Joshua 7)

They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the Lord.

Joshua 7:24   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor.

Joshua 7:25   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Joshua said, "Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today." Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them.

Joshua 7:26   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Over Achan they heaped up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his fierce anger. Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor ever since.

Joshua 8:1   (Read all of Joshua 8)

Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.

Joshua 8:2   (Read all of Joshua 8)

You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city."

Joshua 8:3   (Read all of Joshua 8)

So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night

Joshua 8:4   (Read all of Joshua 8)

with these orders: "Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don't go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

Joshua 8:6   (Read all of Joshua 8)

They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, 'They are running away from us as they did before.' So when we flee from them,

Joshua 8:8   (Read all of Joshua 8)

When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the Lord has commanded. See to it; you have my orders."

Joshua 8:9   (Read all of Joshua 8)

Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai-but Joshua spent that night with the people.

Joshua 8:11   (Read all of Joshua 8)

The entire force that was with him marched up and approached the city and arrived in front of it. They set up camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city.