And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire,.... He that is taken by lot, and the accursed thing found with him, this should be the death, burning, one of…
Barnes' Notes
burnt with fire - i. e. after he had been put to death by stoning Jos 7:25; Lev 20:14.
We have here God's answer to Joshua's address, which, we may suppose, came from the oracle over the ark, before which Joshua had prostrated himself, v. 6. Those that desire to know the will of God…
Cambridge Bible
shall be burnt with fire Achan by his conduct had become cheremor devoted, and is so called in Jos 7:12, and everything devoted to punishment for the reparation of the Divine honour was to be burnt.…
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