John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 7:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, etc.] He that is taken by lot, and the accursed thing found with him, this should be the death, burning, one of the four capital punishments with the Jews: this was ordered in this case, because the city of Jericho, accursed or devoted, was burnt with fire, (<060624>Joshua 6:24); he and all that he hath; the particulars of which are enumerated, (<060724>Joshua 7:24); because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord; (see Gill on “<060711>Joshua 7:11”); and because he hath wrought folly in Israel; as all sin and every transgression of the law is, and was the cause of Israel’s turning their backs on their enemies; which, as Abarbinel says, was folly, and made the people of Israel look foolish, mean, and contemptible: the word has also the signification of a dead carcass, and may possibly have respect, to the thirty six men whose death he was the occasion of, (<060705>Joshua 7:5), and therefore justly ought to die himself.

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