Israel’s first attack on Ai ends in humiliating defeat because Achan secretly took items devoted from Jericho. Joshua mourns before the LORD, but God tells him that Israel has sinned and must remove the accursed thing. The guilty household is identified through a public process, Achan confesses what he took and hid, and judgment falls at the valley of Achor.
Israel’s first attack on Ai ends in humiliating defeat because Achan secretly took items devoted from Jericho. Joshua mourns before the LORD, but God tells him that Israel has sinned and must remove the accursed thing. The guilty household is identified through a public process, Achan confesses what he took and hid, and judgment falls at the valley of Achor.
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