Joshua 7:19-25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁹ So Joshua said to Achan, ‘My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel,^(A) and make a confession to him.^[a] I urge you, tell me what you have done. Don’t hide anything from me.’

²⁰ Achan replied to Joshua, ‘It is true. I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel.^(B) This is what I did: ²¹ When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon,^[b] two and a half kilograms^[c] of silver, and a bar of gold weighing half a kilogram,^[d] I coveted them and took them.^(C) You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.’ ²² So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there was the cloak, concealed in his tent, with the silver underneath. ²³ They took the things from inside the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread them out in the Lord’s presence.

²⁴ Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.^{(D) 25} Joshua said, ‘Why have you brought us trouble?^(E) Today the Lord will bring you trouble! ’ So all Israel stoned them^[e] to death. They burned their bodies, threw stones on them,