Joshua 7:21

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, 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.

In Context

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

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

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Cross References

Genesis 6:2The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 34:27And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.

Deuteronomy 7:25Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

2 Samuel 11:6And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David.

2 Kings 5:20But Giezi the servant of the man of God said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some thing of him:

Job 31:1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 7:17-26

Achan's Arraignment; Achan's Confession; The Execution of Achan. ( b. c. 1451.) 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: 17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: 18 And he brought 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 taken. 19 And Joshua said unto… Read the whole commentary →

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