Joshua 7:22

22 So Yehoshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

Joshua 7:22 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 7:22

So Joshua sent messengers
Directly to Achan's tent, to see if it was as he had said, and to bring the things with them:

and they ran unto the tent;
either for joy that the iniquity was discovered, as Kimchi; or that none of the tribe of Judah or of Achan's family or relations should get there before them, and take them from thence and make void the lot; so Jarchi, Ben Gersom, and Abarbinel; but, no doubt, it is remarked, to show the readiness and diligence of the messengers to obey the order of Joshua:

and, behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it;
as Achan had said.

Joshua 7:22 In-Context

20 `Akhan answered Yehoshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, and thus and thus have I done:

21 when I saw among the spoil a goodly mantle of Shin`ar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the eretz in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

22 So Yehoshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

23 They took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Yehoshua, and to all the children of Yisra'el; and they laid them down before the LORD.

24 Yehoshua, and all Yisra'el with him, took `Akhan the son of Zerach, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge 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 up to the valley of `Akhor.