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Joshua 7:25

in Joshua 7

“Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

KJV

And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

This verse in Joshua 7

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Why hast thou troubled us? - Here is a reference to the meaning of Achan’s or Achar’s name, מה עכרתנו meh Achar-tanu; and as עכר achar is used here, and not עכן achan, and the valley is called the valley of Achor, and not the valley of Achan, hence some have supposed that Achar was his proper name, as it is read 1Ch 2:7, and in some MSS., and ancient versions. See the note on Jos 7:

This site's exposition

took Achan the son of

on Joshua 7:24-25

Achan's sons and daughters are brought down to the valley with the oxen and the tent, and what happened to them is disputed. Verse 25 carries both pronouns, stoned him with stones and burned them with fire, and readers have taken the them for the family or for the goods and the cattle. Deuteronomy 24:16 forbids putting children to death for a father and 2 Kings 14:6 quotes that law as binding, which is the ground of the narrower reading; those who hold that the household died with him point to verse 24 and read the family as knowing what lay buried under their own floor. Joshua's question uses the verb the valley takes its name from, why hast thou troubled us, and the sentence he pronounces turns that same verb back.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

They were stoned (which was the punishment of such offenders, Lev. xxiv, 14 Num. xv, 35,) and not burned to death; but God would have their dead carcases burned to shew his utmost detestation of such persons as break forth into sins of such a public scandal and mischief.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙Joshua

    yehoshua'H3091218 times

  • מֶ֣הwhy?

    mehH4100752 times

  • עֲכַרְתָּ֔נוּhave you brought trouble to us

    ʾakhartanuH591614 times

  • יַעְכֳּרְךָ֥he will bring trouble to you

    ya'korkhaH591614 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH31172304 times

  • הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this

    hazehH20881180 times

  • וַיִּרְגְּמ֨וּand they stoned

    vaiyirgemuH7275

  • אֹת֤וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H36055413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • אֶ֔בֶןstone[s]

    ʾevenH68273 times

  • וַיִּשְׂרְפ֤וּand they burned

    vaiyisrefuH8313117 times

  • אֹתָם֙<obj.> them

    ʾotamH85310935 times

  • בָּאֵ֔שׁwith <the> fire

    baeshH784378 times

  • וַיִּסְקְל֥וּand they stoned

    vaiyiskeluH5619

  • אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH85310935 times

  • בָּאֲבָנִֽים׃with <the> stones

    baavanimH68273 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 17:5

    you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 24:14

      “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Joshua 6:18

    But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and…

    it leads to

    • 1 John 5:21

      Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

    • Ephesians 5:11

      Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

    • Joshua 7:1

      The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set…

    • Joshua 7:11–12

      Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these…

  • Through

    Leviticus 24:14

    “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 21:21

      Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Leviticus 20:27

      A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 17:7

      The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Achan Is Stoned to Death — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Achan Is Stoned to Death — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.