Josué 7

1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel. 2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land."

The men went up and spied out Ai. 3 They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them." 4 So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai. 5 The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water. 6 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. 7 Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! 8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies? 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

10 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that? 11 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff. 12 Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. 13 Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you." 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man. 15 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’"

16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected. 17 He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected. 18 He brought near 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 selected. 19 Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!"

20 Achan answered Joshua, and said, "I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. 21 When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels*7:21 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."

22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. 23 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh. 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. 25 Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.

Te Hara a Ākana

1 Otiia, i taka ngā tama a Īharaira ki te kino i te mea kua oti te kanga: he tangohanga nā Ākana tama a Karami, tama a Taperi, tama a Tera, o te iwi o Hūrā, i tētahi wāhi o te mea kua oti te kanga; ā mura iho te riri o Ihowā ki ngā tama a Īharaira.

2 Nā, ka tonoa atu e Hohua ētahi tāngata i Heriko ki Hai, ki te taha o Peteawene, i te taha ki te rāwhiti o Pētēre, ka kōrero hoki ki a rātou, ka mea, "Haere ki runga ki te titiro i te whenua." Nā, ka haere aua tāngata, ka titiro i Hai.

3 Ā, ka hoki mai rātou ki a Hohua, ka mea ki a ia, "Kaua e haere katoa te iwi ki runga; engari kia rua, kia toru rānei mano o ngā tāngata e haere ki runga ki te patu i Hai. Kaua hei whakangenge kau atu i te iwi ki reira; he tokoouou hoki rātou." 4 Heoi, haere ana ki reira ētahi o te iwi, me te mea e toru mano; nā, rere ana rātou i te aroaro o ngā tāngata o Hai. 5 Ā, tukitukia iho o rātou e ngā tāngata o Hai me te mea e toru tekau mā ono tāngata; i whāia hoki rātou i mua i te kūwaha ā tae noa ki Heparimi, nā, patupatua ana rātou i te heketanga. Ā, ngohe kau te ngākau o te iwi, koia anō kei te wai.

6 Nā, ka haehae a Hohua i ōna kākahu, ka tāpapa ki te whenua, ki mua o te āka a Ihowā ā ahiahi noa, a ia me ngā kaumātua o Īharaira; ā, opehia ana e rātou he puehu ki ō rātou upoko. 7 Nā, ka mea a Hohua, "Auē, e te Ariki, e Ihowā, nā te aha rawa rā koe i anga ai ki te whakawhiti mai i tēnei iwi i Horano, i hoatu ai mātou ki te ringa o ngā Amori, kia hunā ai mātou? Auē, me i aro mātou ki te noho atu i tērā taha o Horano! 8 E te Ariki, me pēhea rā he kupu māku, kua parea atu nei e Īharaira ō rātou tuarā i te aroaro o ō rātou hoariri? 9 Nā te mea ka rongo ngā Kanaani me ngā tāngata katoa o te whenua, nā, ka karapotia mātou, ka hunā hoki ō mātou ingoa i te whenua; ā, ka pēhea koe ki tōu ingoa nui?"

10 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Hohua, "Whakatika! He aha tāu e takoto tāpapa nā? 11 Kua hara a Īharaira; āe, kua takahi rātou i tāku kawenata i whakarite ai ahau ki a rātou. Āe, kua tangohia nei e rātou tētahi wāhi o te mea kua oti te kanga, me te tāhae, me te teka anō rātou, ā, whaowhina ana e rātou ki roto ki ā rātou mea. 12 Nā reira ngā tama a Īharaira tē āhei ai te tū i te aroaro o ō rātou hoariri, nā, hurihia ana ō rātou tuarā i te aroaro o ō rātou hoariri, kua kangā hoki rātou. E kore ahau e haere i a koutou ā muri atu, ki te kāhore koutou e whakangaro i te mea kanga i roto i a koutou.

13 "Whakatika, whakatapua te iwi, mea atu, ‘Whakatapu i a koutou mō āpōpō; ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o Īharaira, "Kei roto i a koe, e Īharaira, te mea kanga; e kore koe e kaha ki te tū ki te aroaro o ōu hoariri, kia tangohia atu rā anō e koutou te mea kanga i roto i a koutou."

14 " ‘Nā, i te ata me whakatata mai koutou, arā ō koutou iwi; ā tērā ko te iwi e tango ai a Ihowā me whakatata mai ā-hapū; ā, ko te hapū e tango ai a Ihowā me whakatata ā-whare mai; ā, ko te whare e tango ai a Ihowā me whakatata mai ia tangata, ia tangata. 15 Ā, ko te tangata e hopukia kei a ia te mea kanga, me tahu ki te ahi, a ia me āna mea katoa; mōna i takahi i te kawenata a Ihowā, i mahi pōauau hoki i roto i a Īharaira.’ "

16 Nā, ka maranga wawe a Hohua i te ata, ā, whakatātaia mai ana e ia a Īharaira, arā ōna iwi; nā, ka mau ko te iwi o Hūrā. 17 Nā, ka ārahina mai e ia te hapū o Hūrā; ā, ka mau te hapū o ngā Terahi; nā, ka ārahina mai e ia te hapū o ngā Terahi, tēnei tangata, tēnei tangata; ā, ka mau ko Taperi. 18 Nā, ka ārahi ia i tōna whare, i tēnei tangata, i tēnei tangata; ā, ka mau ko Ākana tama a Karami, tama a Taperi, tama a Tera, nō te iwi o Hūrā.

19 Kātahi a Hohua ka mea ki a Ākana, "E tāku tama, whakakorōriatia a Ihowā, te Atua o Īharaira, ā, whākina ki a ia, whakaaturia mai hoki ki ahau, i aha koe; kaua e huna i ahau."

20 Nā, ka whakautua e Ākana ki a Hohua, ka mea, "He pono i hara ahau ki a Ihowā, ki te Atua o Īharaira, ā, tēnei tāku i mea ai: 21 I tāku kitenga i tētahi koroka whakapaipai nō Papurōna i roto i ngā taonga, i ngā hekere hiriwa e rua rau, i tētahi poro kōura, e rima tekau hekere tōna taimaha, nā, ka minamina ahau, ka tango. Ā tērā kei te whenua i waenganui o tōku tēneti e huna ana, me te hiriwa hoki kei raro iho."

22 Nā, ka tonoa atu e Hohua ētahi tāngata, ā, ko tō rātou rerenga atu ki te tēneti; nā, ko taua mea e huna ana i roto i tōna tēneti, me te hiriwa i raro iho. 23 Nā, tangohia ana e rātou aua mea i waenganui o te tēneti, ā, mauria ana ki a Hohua rātou ko ngā tama katoa a Īharaira, ā, whakatakotoria ana ki te aroaro o Ihowā.

24 Nā, ka tango a Hohua rātou tahi ko Īharaira katoa i a Ākana tama a Tera, i te hiriwa, i te koroka, i te poro kōura, i āna tama, i āna tamāhine, i āna kau, i ana kāihe, i āna hipi, i tōna tēneti, i ngā mea katoa hoki i a ia, ā, kawea ana rātou ki te Raorao o Ākoro. 25 Nā, ka mea a Hohua, "Nā te aha koe i whakararu ai i a tātou? Ka whakararu hoki a Ihowā i a koe i tēnei rā."

Nā, ākina ana ia e Īharaira katoa ki te kāmaka, ā, tahuna ana ki te ahi i muri iho i tā rātou ākinga i a rātou ki te kāmaka. 26 Ā, whakapūrangatia ana e rātou ētahi kōhatu ki runga i a ia, he nui te pūranga, e tū nei anō ā tae noa ki tēnei rā. Kātahi ka tahuri a Ihowā i te muranga o tōna riri. Nā reira i huaina ai te ingoa o taua wāhi, ko te Raorao o Ākoro, ā mohoa noa nei.