Achan said he saw and took a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels Joshua 7:21. He hid them in the earth inside his tent, with the silver underneath Joshua 7:21.
In Joshua 7:19–23, Joshua presses Achan to be fully honest about what he did, and Achan admits he took valuable items from the plunder. He describes the moment-by-moment path: he saw, wanted, took, and hid the goods under the ground inside his tent. Joshua then orders a quick search. Messengers find the hidden items exactly where Achan said. This scene sits in the larger story of Israel’s early campaigns in Canaan, immediately after the defeat at Ai and the exposure of a hidden violation connected to the Jericho plunder (Joshua 7).
Joshua 7:19–23 presents a tight sequence: an accusation leads to a confession, the confession is checked by a search, and the stolen items are publicly produced. Joshua frames Achan’s honesty as something owed to Yahweh (“give glory … and make confession”), not only as cooperation with human leadership.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Joshua 7:21, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
21when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, 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 earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.