Scriptures

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Joshua 7
²² So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was concealed in his tent with the silver underneath it.
²³ They took them from inside the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons of Israel, and they poured them out before the Lord.
²⁴ Then Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that belonged to him; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
²⁵ Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day." And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.
²⁶ They raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day, and the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the valley of Achor to this day.
Joshua 8
¹ Now the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
² You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
³ So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.
⁴ He commanded them, saying, "See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
⁵ Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them.
⁶ They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ’They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them.