³⁸ And Saul said, ^(A)“Come over here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see what this sin was today.

^19 (A)But you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us!’ Now therefore, present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your ^[a]clans.”

²⁰ And when Samuel had ^(B)caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.

²⁰ having been ^(A)built ^(B)on the foundation of the ^(C)apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being ^(D)the chief cornerstone,

⁴² Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

^3 (A)But the people answered, “You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city.”

² And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldiers ^(A)who drew the sword.

¹⁴ In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which ^(A)the Lord takes shall come according to families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come man by man. ^15 (B)Then it shall be that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has ^(C)transgressed^[a] the covenant of the Lord, and because he ^(D)has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”

¹⁶ So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken. ¹⁷ He brought the clan 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 Then 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, ^(E)was taken.

¹⁹ Now Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I beg you, ^(F)give glory to the Lord God of Israel, ^(G)and make confession to Him, and ^(H)tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

²⁰ And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Indeed ^(I)I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I have done: ²¹ When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I ^[b]coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.”

²² So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. ²³ And they took them from the midst of the tent, brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord. ²⁴ Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and ^(J)all that he had, and they brought them to ^(K)the Valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua said, ^(L)“Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” ^(M)So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

²⁶ Then they ^(N)raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So ^(O)the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called ^(P)the Valley of ^[c]Achor to this day.