Joshua 7:21

I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred didrachmas of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty didrachmas, and I desired them and took them; and, behold, they are hidden in my tent, and the silver is hidden under them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel: thus and thus have I done:

22And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent into the camp; and these things were hidden in his tent, and the silver under them.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:2that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

Genesis 34:27But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dinah their sister.

Deuteronomy 7:25Ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: thou shalt not covet their silver, neither shalt thou take to thyself gold from them, lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

2 Samuel 11:6And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite; and Joab sent Uriah to David.

2 Kings 5:20And Gehazi the servant of Elisha said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naaman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought: as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.

Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes, 1 And I will not think upon a virgin. 1

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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