⁹ For this could have been sold for a large sum and ^(A)given to the poor.”

⁵ “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii^[a] and ^(A)given to the poor?” ⁶ He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and ^(B)having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

⁵ For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii^[a] and ^(A)given to the poor.” And they ^(B)scolded her.

^20 (A)Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. ^(B)As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

^21 (A)But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

^9 (A)But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves^[a] and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

²⁰ And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly ^(A)I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did: ²¹ when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels,^[a] then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

¹⁵ Forsaking the right way, ^(A)they have gone astray. They have followed ^(B)the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved ^(C)gain from wrongdoing,