Joshua 7:20

20 Achan answered Joshua, "It's true. I've sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done:

Joshua 7:20 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 7:20

And Achan answered Joshua, and said
He made a free and open confession of his sin:

indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel;
against him who had been so good to Israel in many instances, and particularly in delivering Jericho into their hands in so extraordinary a manner; against a law of his, respecting the spoil of that city, which sin was the more aggravated thereby; and that he had committed the sin he was taken for and charged with, he owns was a true and real fact:

and thus and thus have I done;
such and such things have I taken, and in the manner as follows.

Joshua 7:20 In-Context

18 He made each soldier of his family come forward. Achan was selected. He was a son of Carmi, grandson of Zabdi, great-grandson of Zerah, and of the tribe of Judah.

19 Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD the God of Israel. Tell me what you have done. Don't hide anything from me."

20 Achan answered Joshua, "It's true. I've sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done:

21 Among the booty I saw a single beautiful robe in the Babylonian style, two hundred shekels of silver, and a single gold bar weighing fifty shekels. I desired them and took them. Now they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver on the bottom."

22 Then Joshua sent messengers. They ran to the tent. There it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver on the bottom.