RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

efore their enemies, but turned their backs before their
enemies, because they were cursed: neither will I be with
you any more, except you destroy the cursed things from
among you.
13 Rise up, set the people apart, and say, Set yourselves
apart for tomorrow: for this says vuvh Elohim of Yisrael,
There is a cursed thing in the midst of you, O Yisrael: you
cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the
cursed thing from among you.
14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near
according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe
which vuvh calls for shall come according to their
mishpachot; and the mishpacha which vuvh shall call for
will come by household; and the household which vuvh
shall call for shall come forth man by man.
15 And it shall be, that he that is found with the cursed
thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has:
because he has transgressed the brit of vuvh,
and because he has worked wickedness in Yisrael.
16 So Yahoshua rose up early in the morning, and
brought Yisrael by their tribes; and the tribe of Yahudah
was selected:
17 And he brought the mishpacha of Yahudah; and he
took the mishpacha of the Zerachites: and he brought the
mishpacha of the Zerachites man by man; and Zavdi was
taken:
18 And he brought his household man by man; and
Achan, the son of Karmi, the son of Zavdi, the son of
Zerach, of the tribe of Yahudah, was selected.
19 And Yahoshua said to Achan, My son, I beg you, give
tifereth to vuvh Elohim of Yisrael, and make confession
to Him; and tell me now what you have done; hide it not
from me.
20 And Achan answered Yahoshua, and said, Indeed I
have sinned against vuvh Elohim of Yisrael, and this is
what I did:
21 When I saw among the spoils a lovely garment from
Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of
gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and
took them; and, see, they are hidden in the earth under the
middle of my tent, and the silver is under it.
22 So Yahoshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent;
and, see, it was hidden in his tent, and the silver under it.
23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and
brought them to Yahoshua, and to all the children of
Yisrael, and laid the items out before vuvh.
24 And Yahoshua, and kol Yisrael with him, took Achan
the son of Zerach, and the silver, and the garment, and the
bar of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen,
and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that
he had: and they brought them to the Valley of Achor. 683
25 And Yahoshua said, Why have you troubled us? vuvh
shall trouble you this day. And kol Yisrael stoned him
with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had
stoned them with stones.
26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this
day. So vuvh turned from the fierceness of His anger.
Therefore the name of that place was called, The Valley
of Achor, to this day. 684
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And vuvh said to Yahoshua, Fear not, neither be
dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise,
go up to Ai: see, now I have given into your hand the
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melech of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
2 And you shall do to Ai and her melech as you did to
Yericho and her melech: only the spoil, and the cattle,
shall you take for a prey to yourselves: now go lay an
ambush for the city behind it.
3 So Yahoshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up
against Ai: and Yahoshua chose thirty thousand mighty
men of valor, and sent them away by night.
4 And he commanded them, saying, See, you shall lie in
wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far
from the city, but you all be ready:
5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach
the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out
against us, as the last time, that we will turn and run
before them,
6 For they will come out after us. When we have drawn
them from the city; they will say, They flee from before
us, as last time: then we will flee before them.
7 Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the
city: for vuvh your Elohim will deliver it into your hand.
8 And it shall be, when you have taken the city, that you
shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment
of vuvh shall you do. See, I have commanded you.
9 Yahoshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie
in ambush, and stay between Beth-El and Ai, on the west
side of Ai: but Yahoshua lodged that night among the
people.
10 And Yahoshua rose up early in the morning, and
numbered the people, and went up, he and the zechanim
of Yisrael, ahead of the people to Ai.
11 And all the people, even the people of war that were
with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the
city, and camped on the north side of Ai: now there was a
valley between them and Ai.
12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to
lie in ambush between Beth-El and Ai, on the west side of
the city.
13 And when they had set the people in position, even all
the army, positioned to the north of the city, and those
who lay in wait positioned to the west of the city, that
Yahoshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 And it came to pass, when the melech of Ai saw it, that
they quickly rose up early, and the men of the city went
out against Yisrael to battle, he and all his people, at a
time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that
there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15 And Yahoshua and kol Yisrael pretended as if they
were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the
wilderness.
16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together
to pursue after them: and they pursued after Yahoshua,
and were drawn away from the city.
17 And there was not a man left in Ai, or Beth-El, that
went not out chasing after Yisrael: and they left the city
wide open, and pursued after Yisrael.
18 And vuvh said to Yahoshua, Stretch out the spear that
is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your
hand. And Yahoshua stretched out the spear that he had in
his hand toward the city.
19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their places, and
they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and
they entered into the city, and took it, and immediately set
the city on fire.