Bible Dictionary: Temptation: Achan

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, 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 middle of my tent, and the silver under it.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Little Sins
... Little though the temptation be, I dread thee, for thy little temptation leads to
something greater, and thy ... Satan always begins with us as he did with Achan. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/little sins.htm

Tenth Commandment
... A TEMPTATION AND A SNARE. "They that will be, (that is, desire to be), rich fall
into temptation and a ... It was the cause of his death. "And Achan answered Joshua ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/weighed and wanting/tenth commandment.htm

The First Season
... good Hezekiah could not hide a vain-glorious temper in his temptation; hence that ...
the tribes of Israel to cast lots for the discovery of Achan, doubtless Achan ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/i the first season.htm

The Worst Things Work for Good to the Godly
... (i.) He can propose the object; as he set a wedge of gold before Achan. ... within, and
work some kind of inclinableness in the heart to embrace a temptation. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a divine cordial/the worst things work for.htm

Gehazi
... He is bracketed with Achan, and coupled with Judas. ... The rules of moral hygiene are
summed up in our Lord's prayer, "Lead us not into temptation," that is to say ...
//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/gehazi.htm

Peace
... Violent winds make the sea rough and stormy; so the winds of temptation blowing,
disturb peace of spirit ... Sin is the Achan that troubles us, the Trojan horse. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/7 peace.htm

The Life of Mr. Robert Bailey.
... his malignant faction into the bosom of the church, proved the Achan in the ... of the
resolutioners, on the very first blast of temptation, involved themselves in ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr robert 5.htm

A Wise Desire
... He chose to reject the temptation, but did he choose the trial? ... You know when Achan
had committed a great sin the tribes were assembled and the lot fell upon ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/a wise desire.htm

The Tenth Commandment
... and to desire so much of it as may keep us from the temptation of poverty ... commandment
Thou shalt not steal.' It is the root of theft: covetous Achan stole the ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 1 the tenth commandment.htm

The Call of Matthew - the Saviour's Welcome to Sinners - Rabbinic ...
... Achan of old had thus obtained pardon. ... but aim at doing all the more in the opposite
direction, or of overcoming sin in the same circumstances of temptation. ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xvii the call of.htm

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