Joshua 7:15

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The one caught with the riches must be burned up along with all who belong to him, because he violated the LORD’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 34:7 : 7 Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob’s daughter, a crime that should not be committed.
  • Judg 20:6 : 6 I took hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces throughout the territory occupied by Israel, because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity in Israel.
  • 1 Sam 14:38-39 : 38 Then Saul said,“All you leaders of the army come here. Find out how this sin occurred today. 39 For as surely as the LORD, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything.
  • 1 Sam 26:21 : 21 Saul replied,“I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you anymore, for you treated my life with value this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!”
  • 2 Sam 13:13 : 13 How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools in Israel! Just speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
  • Deut 13:15-16 : 15 you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock. 16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.
  • Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.
  • Josh 7:25-26 : 25 Joshua said,“Why have you brought disaster on us? The LORD will bring disaster on you today!” All Israel stoned him to death.(They also stoned and burned the others.) 26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones(it remains to this very day) and the LORD’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 7:11-14
    4 verses
    83%

    11Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.

    12The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.

    13Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this:‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,“You are contaminated, O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.”

    14In the morning you must approach in tribal order. The tribe the LORD selects must approach by clans. The clan the LORD selects must approach by families. The family the LORD selects must approach man by man.

  • Josh 7:1
    80%

    1Achan Sins and is Punished But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches. The LORD was furious with the Israelites.

  • Josh 6:18
    79%

    18But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for God. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.

  • Josh 22:20
    78%

    20When Achan son of Zerah disobeyed the command about the city’s riches, the entire Israelite community was judged, though only one man had sinned. He most certainly died for his sin!’”

  • Josh 7:16
    77%

    16Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order, and the tribe of Judah was selected.

  • Josh 7:23-25
    3 verses
    76%

    23They took it all from the middle of the tent, brought it to Joshua and all the Israelites, and placed it before the LORD.

    24Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster.

    25Joshua said,“Why have you brought disaster on us? The LORD will bring disaster on you today!” All Israel stoned him to death.(They also stoned and burned the others.)

  • Num 15:31-33
    3 verses
    76%

    31Because he has despised the LORD’s message and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

    32When the Israelites were in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

    33Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

    26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

  • Deut 17:2
    75%

    2Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

  • Deut 13:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

    16You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.

    17You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

  • Deut 17:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done in Israel,

    5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.

  • Josh 7:18
    74%

    18He then made Zabdi’s family approach man by man and Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, was selected.

  • Lev 19:8
    73%

    8and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.

  • Deut 13:11
    73%

    11Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

  • Deut 29:21
    73%

    21The LORD will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

  • Ezek 5:4
    73%

    4Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • Deut 7:5
    72%

    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

  • Lev 4:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12all the rest of the bull– he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.

    13For the Whole Congregation“‘If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter is not noticed by the assembly, and they violate one of the LORD’s commandments, which must not be violated, so they become guilty,

  • Josh 6:24
    72%

    24But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the LORD’s house.

  • Deut 27:15
    72%

    15‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image– something abhorrent to the LORD, the work of the craftsman– and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Lev 24:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14“Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

    15Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites,‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

  • Zech 5:4
    71%

    4“I will send it out,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”

  • Deut 17:12
    71%

    12The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the judge– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

  • Lev 17:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

    9but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it to the LORD– that person will be cut off from his people.

  • Josh 23:16
    71%

    16If you violate the covenantal laws of the LORD your God which he commanded you to keep, and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, the LORD will be very angry with you and you will disappear quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

  • Lev 6:4
    71%

    4when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,

  • Josh 7:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20Achan told Joshua,“It is true. I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel in this way:

    21I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath.”

  • Lev 13:52
    70%

    52He must burn the garment or the warp or the woof, whether wool or linen, or any article of leather which has the infection in it. Because it is a malignant disease it must be burned up in the fire.

  • Lev 5:19
    70%

    19It is a guilt offering; he was surely guilty before the LORD.”

  • Josh 9:23
    70%

    23Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

  • 1 Chr 2:7
    70%

    7The son of Carmi:Achan, who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God.

  • Deut 17:7
    70%

    7The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Num 16:37
    70%

    37“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.