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Joshua 7:20 KJV
Joshua · chapter 7 · verse 20
And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:Joshua 7:20 · King James Version
Joshua 7:20 in context
18And 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.
19And 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.
20And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
21When 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.
22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- answeredʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- JoshuaYᵉhôwshûwaʻJehoshua , the Jewish leaderH3091 →
- Indeedʼomnâhadverb, surelyH546 →
- sinnedchâṭâʼproperly, to missH2398 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- AchanʻÂkânAkan, an IsraeliteH5912 →
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We have in these verses, I. The discovery of Achan by the lot, which proved a perfect lot, though it proceeded gradually. Though we may suppose that Joshua slept the better, and with more ease and satisfaction, when he knew the worst of the disease of that body of which, under God, he was the head, and was put into a…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-26