Joshua 7:24

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, with the silver, the mantle, and the bar of gold, and with his sons and daughters, his ox, his donkey and his sheep, his tent, and all his possessions, and led them off to the Valley of Achor.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Should not the judge of all the world do what is just?”

Job 20:15

The riches he swallowed he shall vomit up; God shall make his belly disgorge them.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Proverbs 15:27

The greedy tear down their own house, but those who hate bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Should the riches be lost through some misfortune, they may have offspring when they have no means.

Isaiah 65:10

Sharon shall become a pasture for the flocks, the Valley of Achor a resting place for the cattle, for my people who have sought me.

Hosea 2:15

I will punish her for the days of the Baals, for whom she burnt incense, When she decked herself out with her rings and her jewelry, and went after her lovers— but me she forgot—oracle of the Lord.

Joshua 15:7

Thence the boundary climbed to Debir, north of the Valley of Achor, in the direction of the Gilgal that faces the pass of Adummim, on the south side of the wadi; from there it crossed to the waters of En-shemesh and emerged at En-rogel.

Joshua 22:20

When Achan, son of Zerah, acted treacherously by violating the ban, was it not upon the entire community of Israel that wrath fell? Though he was but a single man, he did not perish alone for his guilt!” Reply of the Eastern Tribes.

Joshua 6:18

But be careful not to covet or take anything that is under the ban; otherwise you will bring upon the camp of Israel this ban and the misery of it.

Joshua 6:21

They observed the ban by putting to the sword all living creatures in the city: men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep and donkeys.

Joshua 7:1

But the Israelites acted treacherously with regard to the ban; Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took goods that were under the ban, and the anger of the Lord flared up against the Israelites.

Joshua 7:23

They took them from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread them out before the Lord.

Joshua 7:26

Over Achan they piled a great heap of stones, which remains to the present day. Then the Lord turned from his anger. That is why the place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.