tity of silver and gold, and besides
those of brass also, that was heaped together out of the city when it
was taken, no one transgressing the decree, nor purloining for their own
peculiar advantage; which spoils Joshua delivered to the priests, to be
laid up among their treasures. And thus did Jericho perish.

10. But there was one Achar, [4] the son [of Charmi, the son] of
Zebedias, of the tribe of Judah, who finding a royal garment woven
entirely of gold, and a piece of gold that weighed two hundred shekels;
[5] and thinking it a very hard case, that what spoils he, by running
some hazard, had found, he must give away, and offer it to God,
who stood in no need of it, while he that wanted it must go without
it,--made a deep ditch in his own tent, and laid them up therein, as
supposing he should not only be concealed from his fellow soldiers, but
from God himself also.

11. Now the place where Joshua pitched his camp was called Gilgal, which
denotes liberty; [6] for since now they had passed over Jordan, they
looked on themselves as freed from the miseries which they had undergone
from the Egyptians, and in the wilderness.

12. Now, a few days after the calamity that befell Jericho, Joshua sent
three thousand armed men to take Ai, a city situate above Jericho; but,
upon the sight of the people of Ai, with them they were driven back, and
lost thirty-six of their men. When this was told the Israelites, it made
them very sad, and exceeding disconsolate, not so much because of the
relation the men that were destroyed bare to them, though those that
were destroyed were all good men, and deserved their esteem, as by the
despair it occasioned; for while they believed that they were already,
in effect, in possession of the land, and should bring back the army out
of the battles without loss, as God had promised beforehand, they now
saw unexpectedly their enemies bold with success; so they put sackcloth
over their garments, and continued in tears and lamentation all the day,
without the least inquiry after food, but laid what had happened greatly
to heart.

13. When Joshua saw the army so much afflicted, and possessed with
forebodings of evil as to their whole expedition, he used freedom with
God, and said, "We are not come thus far out of any rashness of our own,
as though we thought ourselves able to subdue this land with our own
weapons, but at the instigation of Moses thy servant for this purpose,
because thou hast prom