Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful coat from Babylon, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I desired them and took them. They are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, and the silver is under it.”
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20Achan answered Joshua, “Truly, I have sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel. This is what I did:
Cross References
Genesis 6:2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were attractive. They took for themselves wives, any of them that they chose.
Genesis 34:27The other sons of Jacob came to the dead bodies and looted the city, because the people had defiled their sister.
Deuteronomy 7:25You will burn the carved figures of their gods—do not covet the silver or the gold that covers them and take it for yourself, because if you do, you will become trapped by it—for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
2 Samuel 11:6Then David sent to Joab saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
2 Kings 5:20He had traveled only a short distance, when Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said to himself, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean by not receiving from his hands gifts that he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and receive something from him.”
Job 31:1I have made a covenant with my eyes; 1 how then should I look with desire on 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 →