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Chapter 7 But the children of Israel
committed a trespass in the accursed

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thing.

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For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of

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Judah, took of the accursed thing.

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And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against the children of Israel.

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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai,
which is beside Beth-haven, on the east

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side of Bethel, and spake unto them,
saying, Go up and view the country.

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And the men went up and viewed Ai.

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And they returned to Joshua and said unto
him, Let not all the people go up,

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but let about two or three thousand men go
up and smite Ai, and make not all the

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people to labor 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

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before the men of Ai.

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And the men of Ai smote of them about
thirty and six men, for they chased them

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from before the gate even unto Shebarem,
and smote them in the going down.

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Wherefore the hearts of the people melted,
and became as water.

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And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to
the earth upon his face before the ark of

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the LORD, until the even tide,
he and the elders of Israel, and put dust

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upon their heads.

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And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God,
wherefore hast thou at all brought this

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people over Jordan, to deliver us into the
hand of the Amorites, to destroy us?

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Would to God we had been content,
and dwelt on the other side, Jordan?

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O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel
turneth her backs before their enemies?

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For the Canaanites, and all the
inhabitants of the land, shall hear of it,

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and shall environ us round, and cut off
our name from the earth.

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And what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

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And the LORD said unto Joshua,
Get thee up, wherefore liest thou thus

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upon thy face?

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Israel hath sinned, and they have also
transgressed my covenant, which I

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commanded them.

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For they have even taken up the accursed
thing, and have also stolen, and

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dissembled also.

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And they have put it even among their own
stuff.

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Therefore the children of Israel could not
stand before their enemies, but turned

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their backs before their enemies,
because they were accursed.

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Neither will I be with you any more,
except ye destroy the accursed from among

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you.

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Up, sanctify the people, and say,
Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow.

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For thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
There is an accursed thing in the midst of

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thee, O Israel.

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Thou canst not stand before thine enemies,
until ye take away the accursed thing from

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among you.

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In the morning, therefore, ye shall be
brought according to your tribes,

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and it shall be, that the tribe which the
LORD taketh shall come according to the

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families thereof.

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And the family which the LORD shall take
shall come by households, and the

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household which the LORD shall take shall
come man by man.

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And it shall be, that he that is taken
with the accursed thing shall be burnt

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with fire, he and all that he hath,
because he hath transgressed the covenant

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of the LORD, and because he hath wrought
folly in Israel.

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So Joshua rose up early in the morning and
brought Israel by their tribes.

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And the tribe of Judah was taken.

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And he brought the family of Judah.

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And he took the family of the Zarhites.

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And he brought the family of the Zarhites
man by man.

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And Zabdai was taken.

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And he brought his household man by man.

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And Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of
Zabdai, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of

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Judah, was taken.

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And Joshua said unto Achan, My son,
give, I pray thee.

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Glory to the Lord God of Israel,
and make confession unto him.

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And tell me now what thou hast done.

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Hide it not from me.

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And Achan answered Joshua and said,
Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God

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of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

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When I saw among the spoils a goodly
Babylonish garment, and two hundred

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shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of
fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them

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and took them.

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And behold, they are hid in the earth in
the midst of my tent, and the silver under

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it.

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So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran
unto the tent, and behold, it was hid in

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his tent, and the silver under it.

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And they took them out of the midst of the
tent, and brought them unto Joshua,

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and unto all the children of Israel,
and laid them out before the Lord.

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And Joshua, and all Israel with him,
took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the

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silver and the garment, and the wedge of
gold, and his sons and his daughters,

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and his oxen and his asses, and his sheep
and his tent, and all that he had.

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And they brought them unto the valley of
Achor.

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And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled
us?

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The Lord shall trouble thee this day.

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And all Israel stoned him with stones,
and burned them with fire, after they had

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stoned them with stones.

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And they raised over him a great heap of
stones unto this day.

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So the Lord turned from the fierceness of
his anger.

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Wherefore the name of that place was
called the Valley of Achor unto this day.