Joshua 7:21

Good News Translation

Among the things we seized I saw a beautiful Babylonian cloak, about five pounds of silver, and a bar of gold weighing over one pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. You will find them buried inside my tent, with the silver at the bottom.”

Cross References

Genesis 10:10

At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.

Genesis 34:27

After the slaughter Jacob's other sons looted the town to take revenge for their sister's disgrace.

Genesis 6:2

some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.

2 Samuel 11:2

One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful.

2 Kings 7:8

When the four men reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, ate and drank what was there, grabbed the silver, gold, and clothing they found, and went off and hid them; then they returned, entered another tent, and did the same thing.

Job 31:1

I have made a solemn promise never to look with lust at a woman.

Psalm 119:37

Keep me from paying attention to what is worthless; be good to me, as you have promised.

Exodus 20:17

“Do not desire another man's house; do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.”

Proverbs 1:19

Robbery always claims the life of the robber—this is what happens to anyone who lives by violence.

Proverbs 23:31

Don't let wine tempt you, even though it is rich red, and it sparkles in the cup, and it goes down smoothly.

Proverbs 28:22

Selfish people are in such a hurry to get rich that they do not know when poverty is about to strike.

Proverbs 4:23

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

Isaiah 28:15

You boast that you have made a treaty with death and reached an agreement with the world of the dead. You are certain that disaster will spare you when it comes, because you depend on lies and deceit to keep you safe.

Isaiah 29:15

Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are doomed! They carry out their schemes in secret and think no one will see them or know what they are doing.

Habakkuk 2:9

You are doomed! You have made your family rich with what you took by violence, and have tried to make your own home safe from harm and danger!

Luke 12:15

And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be.”

Luke 12:2

Whatever is covered up will be uncovered, and every secret will be made known.

Ephesians 5:3

Since you are God's people, it is not right that any matters of sexual immorality or indecency or greed should even be mentioned among you.

Ephesians 5:5

You may be sure that no one who is immoral, indecent, or greedy (for greed is a form of idolatry) will ever receive a share in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn their idols. Do not desire the silver or gold that is on them, and do not take it for yourselves. If you do, that will be fatal, because the Lord hates idolatry.

Colossians 3:5

You must put to death, then, the earthly desires at work in you, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed (for greed is a form of idolatry).

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.”

James 1:15

Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

Joshua 7:20

“It's true,” Achan answered. “I have sinned against the Lord, Israel's God, and this is what I did.

Joshua 7:22

So Joshua sent some men, who ran to the tent and found that the condemned things really were buried there, with the silver at the bottom.

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight path and have lost their way; they have followed the path taken by Balaam son of Beor, who loved the money he would get for doing wrong