Joshua 7:16-19 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:… 1. Look at it in itself. It was sacrilege — a robbing God of what He had directed to be devoted to His glory and appropriated to the use of His sanctuary. 2. View it in its circumstances. It was committed immediately after the offender, together with the rest of the people of Israel, had solemnly renewed their dedication to God in the ordinances of circumcision and the Passover, and after the most signal display of almighty power; and it was committed when God had declared that the person who should be found guilty of such a sin should be accursed. 3. Look, too, at Achan's sin in its effects. In consequence of it, God had withdrawn His favour and His help from His people; they had sustained a humiliating defeat, in which six-and-thirty of their number had been slain; and had the sin not been punished, it would have procured the destruction of the whole nation. (W. Cardall, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: |
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