24 And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the (A)Valley of Achor.

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And the boundary goes up to Debir from (A)the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite (B)the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of (C)En-shemesh and ends at (D)En-rogel.

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But (A)those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, (B)into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that (C)plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of (D)all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

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15 And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor[a] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer (A)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26

10 (A)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
    and (B)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
    for my people (C)who have sought me.

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27 Whoever is (A)greedy for unjust gain (B)troubles his own household,
    but he who hates (C)bribes will live.

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26 And they raised over him (A)a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then (B)the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 7:26 Achor means trouble

27 So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood (A)at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones. 28 And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been (B)of my own accord. 29 If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, (C)then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord creates something new, and (D)the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they (E)go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

31 (F)And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.

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(A)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am (B)a jealous God, (C)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

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13 “Behold, (A)I strike my hand at (B)the dishonest gain that you have made, and at (C)the blood that has been in your midst. 14 (D)Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? (E)I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.

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13 (A)There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

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23 To fill his belly to the full,
    God[a] will send his burning anger against him
    and rain it upon him (A)into his body.
24 (B)He will flee from an iron weapon;
    (C)a bronze arrow will strike (D)him through.
25 It (E)is drawn forth and comes out of his body;
    (F)the glittering point comes out of his (G)gallbladder;
    (H)terrors come upon him.
26 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
    (I)a fire not fanned will devour him;
    what is left in his tent will be consumed.
27 (J)The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
    and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The possessions of his house will be carried away,
    dragged off in the day of God's[b] wrath.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:23 Hebrew he
  2. Job 20:28 Hebrew his

15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;
    God casts them out of his belly.

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Israel Defeated at Ai

But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for (A)Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel.

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21 Then they (A)devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.

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18 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel (A)a thing for destruction and (B)bring trouble upon it.

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25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, (A)so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! (B)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

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