Josué 7:25

25 y dijo Josué: ¿Por qué nos has turbado? Túrbete el SEÑOR en este día. Y todos los israelitas los apedrearon, y los quemaron a fuego, después de apedrearlos con piedras

Josué 7:25 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 7:25

And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us?
&c.] Been the occasion of so much trouble to us, by committing this sin:

the Lord shall trouble thee this day;
by the destruction of him and all that belonged to him: this is said to show that his punishment was of God, and according to his will: in the Misnah ^F18 an emphasis is laid on the phrase "this day", and it is observed,

``this day thou shalt be troubled, but thou shalt not be troubled in the world to come;''

suggesting that though temporal punishment was inflicted on him, yet his iniquity was forgiven, and he would be saved with an everlasting, salvation; and as it may be hoped from the ingenuous confession that he made, that he had true repentance for it, and forgiveness of it:

and all Israel stoned him with stones;
hence some gather, that only Achan himself suffered death, and not his sons and daughters:

and burnt them with fire after they had stoned them with stones;
which the Jewish commentators understand of his oxen, asses, and sheep; so Jarchi, Ben Gersom, and Abarbinel: likewise his tent, and household goods, the Babylonish garment, gold and silver, were burnt, and he himself also, for that is the express order, ( Joshua 7:15 ) ; the Jews say, as particularly Jarchi observes, that he was stoned because he profaned the sabbath, it being on the sabbath day that Jericho was taken, and stoning was the punishment of the sabbath breaker, and he was burnt on the account of the accursed thing; so Abendana.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Sanhedrin ut supra. (Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 18. sect. 6.)

Josué 7:25 In-Context

23 Y tomándolo de en medio de la tienda, lo trajeron a Josué y a todos los hijos de Israel, y lo pusieron delante del SEÑOR

24 Entonces Josué, y todo Israel con él, tomó a Acán hijo de Zera, y la plata, el manto, el lingote de oro, sus hijos, sus hijas, sus bueyes sus asnos, sus ovejas, su tienda, y todo cuanto tenía, y lo llevaron todo al valle de Acor

25 y dijo Josué: ¿Por qué nos has turbado? Túrbete el SEÑOR en este día. Y todos los israelitas los apedrearon, y los quemaron a fuego, después de apedrearlos con piedras

26 y levantaron sobre ellos un gran montón de piedras, hasta hoy. Y el SEÑOR se tornó de la ira de su furor. Y por esto fue llamado aquel lugar el Valle de Acor, hasta hoy