How to Avoid Coveting What Is Not Yours
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Joshua 7:19-26. Let’s go!
Joshua 7:19 (NIV)
19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and give him the praise. Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
On verse 19: “Give glory to the Lord” was a Jewish way of saying, “Tell the truth”. For another example, see John 9:24. May we give glory to God by living lives of integrity.
Joshua 7:20-23 (NIV)
20 Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done:
21 When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.
23 They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the LORD.

