Conclusion of A Thief in Israel

Jehovah answers:  'Get up! Israel has sinned.  They have taken some things that were to be destroyed or to be given to Jehovah's tabernacle.  The stole a beautiful robe and kept it secret.  I will not bless you until you destroy it, and the one who has taken these things.'  Jehovah says that he will show Joshua who the bad  man is.

So Joshua gathers all the people together, and Jehovah picks out the bad man A'chan. A'chan says:  'I have sinned. I saw a beautiful robe, and the bar of gold and the silver pieces. I wanted them so much that I took them. You will them inside my tent.'

When these things are found and brought to Joshua, he says to A'chan:  'Why have you brought trouble on us?  Now Jehovah will bring trouble on you? At that all the people  stone A'chan and his family to death.  Doesn't that show that we should never take things that do not belong to us?

Afterward Israel goes out to fight against A'i again.  This time Jehovah helps his people , and they win the battle.

Joshua 7:1-26; 8:1-29.

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