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Joshua
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Joshua

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The Israelites are gathered at the Jordan River as they prepare to enter the promised land. The spies have reported that the land is good and the people are ready to receive the covenant. Joshua instructs them to be ready and to trust God in their journey.

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(1) But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
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Joshua 7:20Joshua 7:21Joshua 22:16II Chronicles 24:18Ezra 9:6Daniel 9:7Joshua 22:20I Chronicles 2:6I Chronicles 2:7Joshua 6:17Joshua 6:18Joshua 22:18

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Joshua 6:18Joshua 22:20Joshua 7:18Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62Joshua 7:12

(2) And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
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Joshua 12:9Genesis 12:8Nehemiah 11:31Joshua 18:12Genesis 28:19Hosea 4:15Joshua 2:1Proverbs 20:18Proverbs 24:6Matthew 10:16Ephesians 5:15

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Joshua 8:9Joshua 10:1Joshua 16:1Joshua 12:9Joshua 8:1Genesis 12:8

(3) And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
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Proverbs 13:4Proverbs 21:25Luke 13:24Hebrews 4:11Hebrews 6:11Hebrews 6:12II Peter 1:5II Peter 1:10

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Joshua 8:9Joshua 8:24Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:1Joshua 8:3Joshua 8:18

(4) So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
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Leviticus 26:17Deuteronomy 28:25Deuteronomy 32:30Isaiah 30:17Isaiah 59:2

(5) And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
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Deuteronomy 1:44Joshua 2:9Joshua 2:11Joshua 5:1Leviticus 26:36Psalms 22:14Isaiah 13:7

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Joshua 8:24Joshua 11:8Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Exodus 8:17Daniel 2:35

(6) And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
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Genesis 37:29Genesis 37:34Numbers 14:6II Samuel 13:31Ezra 9:3Ezra 9:4Ezra 9:5Esther 4:1Job 1:20Acts 14:14Numbers 16:22Numbers 16:45

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Lamentations 2:10II Kings 5:8Job 2:12Joshua 21:1Joshua 23:2Joshua 24:1

(7) And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
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Exodus 5:22Exodus 5:23Numbers 14:3II Kings 3:10Psalms 116:11Jeremiah 12:1Jeremiah 12:2Hebrews 12:5Exodus 14:11Exodus 14:12Exodus 17:3Numbers 20:4

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Joshua 4:7Joshua 5:1Deuteronomy 4:46Joshua 24:8Numbers 32:19Joshua 3:8

(8) O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
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Ezra 9:10Habakkuk 2:1Romans 3:5Romans 3:6

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Joshua 7:12

(9) For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
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Exodus 32:12Numbers 14:13Psalms 83:4Psalms 124:2Psalms 124:3Deuteronomy 32:26Deuteronomy 32:27Psalms 106:6Psalms 106:7Psalms 106:8Ezekiel 20:9Ezekiel 36:22

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Judges 1:27Judges 1:33II Kings 8:12Joshua 17:11Judges 1:30Exodus 15:26

(10) And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
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Exodus 14:15I Samuel 15:22I Samuel 16:1I Chronicles 22:16

(11) Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
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Joshua 7:1Joshua 7:20Joshua 7:21Joshua 23:16Deuteronomy 17:2Judges 2:20II Kings 18:12Isaiah 24:5Isaiah 50:1Isaiah 50:2Jeremiah 31:32Hosea 6:7

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Leviticus 26:42Joshua 7:15II Kings 23:3Jeremiah 34:18Jeremiah 33:8Joshua 6:18

(12) Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
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Joshua 22:18Joshua 22:19Joshua 22:20Numbers 14:45Judges 2:4Psalms 5:4Psalms 5:5Proverbs 28:1Isaiah 59:2Habakkuk 1:13Joshua 6:18Deuteronomy 7:26

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Joshua 7:13Joshua 6:18Judges 2:14Exodus 23:27Joshua 21:44II Kings 21:14

(13) Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
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Joshua 3:5Exodus 19:10Exodus 19:11Exodus 19:12Exodus 19:13Exodus 19:14Exodus 19:15Lamentations 3:40Lamentations 3:41Joel 2:16Joel 2:17Zephaniah 2:1

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Joshua 6:18Joshua 7:12II Chronicles 29:5Leviticus 11:44Numbers 11:18Joshua 3:5

(14) In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
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Joshua 7:17Joshua 7:18I Samuel 10:19I Samuel 10:20I Samuel 10:21I Samuel 14:38I Samuel 14:39I Samuel 14:40I Samuel 14:41I Samuel 14:42Proverbs 16:33Jonah 1:7

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Numbers 26:58Numbers 3:27Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62Numbers 26:12Numbers 26:15

(15) And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
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Joshua 7:25Joshua 7:26Deuteronomy 13:15Deuteronomy 13:16I Samuel 14:38I Samuel 14:39Genesis 34:7Judges 20:6I Samuel 26:21II Samuel 13:13

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Leviticus 26:42Joshua 7:11II Kings 23:3Jeremiah 34:18Joshua 6:18

(16) So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
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Joshua 3:1Genesis 22:3Psalms 119:60Ecclesiastes 9:10

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Genesis 22:3Exodus 24:4Joshua 3:1Joshua 6:12Joshua 8:10I Samuel 29:10

(17) And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
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Genesis 38:30Numbers 26:20I Chronicles 2:4I Chronicles 2:5I Chronicles 2:6I Chronicles 2:7

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Numbers 26:58Numbers 3:27Numbers 26:20Numbers 26:12Numbers 26:15Numbers 26:26

(18) And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
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Numbers 32:23I Samuel 14:42Proverbs 13:21Jeremiah 2:26Acts 5:1Acts 5:2Acts 5:3Acts 5:4Acts 5:5Acts 5:6Acts 5:7Acts 5:8

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Joshua 7:1Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:7Joshua 20:8

(19) And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
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II Timothy 2:25Titus 2:2James 1:20I Peter 3:8I Peter 3:9I Samuel 6:5Isaiah 13:12Jeremiah 13:16Luke 17:18John 9:24Revelation 16:9Numbers 5:6

(20) And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
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Genesis 42:21Exodus 10:16Numbers 22:34I Samuel 15:24I Samuel 15:30Job 7:20Job 33:27Psalms 38:18Matthew 27:4

(21) When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
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Genesis 3:6Genesis 6:2II Samuel 11:2Job 31:1Psalms 119:37Proverbs 23:31Proverbs 28:22Matthew 5:28Matthew 5:29I John 2:15I John 2:16Genesis 10:10

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Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19Numbers 7:25Numbers 7:31Numbers 7:37Numbers 7:43

(22) So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
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Genesis 31:33II Kings 7:8Numbers 19:14Joshua 7:21Joshua 6:25Exodus 40:19

(23) And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
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Genesis 31:33Numbers 19:14Joshua 7:22Joshua 4:8

(24) And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
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Joshua 7:1Job 20:15Proverbs 15:27Ecclesiastes 5:13Ezekiel 22:13Ezekiel 22:14I Timothy 6:9I Timothy 6:10Joshua 6:18Joshua 6:21Genesis 18:25Exodus 20:5

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Joshua 7:21Genesis 12:16Exodus 22:1I Chronicles 12:40Genesis 31:33Joshua 7:22

(25) And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
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Joshua 7:11Joshua 7:12Joshua 7:13Joshua 6:18Genesis 34:30I Kings 18:17I Kings 18:18I Chronicles 2:7Habakkuk 2:6Habakkuk 2:7Habakkuk 2:8Habakkuk 2:9

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10I Kings 5:17Genesis 31:46Exodus 25:7Exodus 28:12

(26) And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
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Joshua 8:29Joshua 10:27II Samuel 18:17Lamentations 3:53Deuteronomy 13:17II Samuel 21:14Isaiah 40:2Joel 2:13Joel 2:18John 3:9John 3:10Zechariah 6:8

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I Chronicles 29:2Genesis 31:46I Kings 7:10I Samuel 13:18II Kings 23:26Psalms 85:3

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