Joshua 7:20-21
7:20 Achan told Joshua, “It is true. I have sinned against the
Lord God of Israel in this way:
1
7:21 I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon,
2 two hundred silver pieces,
3 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.”
Joshua 22:16
22:16 “The entire community of the
Lord says, ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the
Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the
Lord.
4
Joshua 22:2
22:2 and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the
Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.
5
Joshua 24:18
24:18 The
Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship
6 the
Lord, for he is our God!”
Ezra 9:6
9:6 I prayed,
7 “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
Daniel 9:7
9:7 “You are righteous, 8 O Lord, but we are humiliated this day 9 – the people 10 of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
1 tn Heb “like this and like this I did.”
2 tn Heb “Shinar,” a reference to Babylon (cf. Gen 10:10; 11:2; 14:1). Many modern translations retain the Hebrew name “Shinar” (cf. NEB, NRSV) but some use the more familiar “Babylon” (cf. NIV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “shekels.”
4 tn Heb “What is this unfaithfulness with which you have been unfaithful against the God of Israel, turning today from after the Lord, when you built for yourselves an altar, rebelling today against the Lord?”
5 tn Heb “You have kept all which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, and you have listened to my voice, to all which I commanded you.”
6 tn Or “will serve.”
7 tn Heb “I said.”
8 tn Heb “to you (belongs) righteousness.”
9 tn Heb “and to us (belongs) shame of face like this day.”
10 tn Heb “men.”