Josué 7:14

14 Os acercaréis, pues, mañana por vuestras tribus; y la tribu que el SEÑOR tomare, se acercará por sus familias; y la familia que el SEÑOR tomare, se acercará por sus casas; y la casa que el SEÑOR tomare, se acercará por los varones

Josué 7:14 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 7:14

In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to
your tribes
One or more of every tribe, according to the number of them, were to be brought the next morning before Joshua and the elders of Israel, the sanhedrim and council of the nation, and very probably the tabernacle, where they assembled for this purpose:

and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the Lord taketh;
how a tribe and so a family or household were taken is differently understood; what some of the Jewish writers say deserves no regard, as the detention of persons by the ark, or of the dulness of the stones in the Urim and Thummim: it seems best to understand the whole affair as done by casting lots ^F24; so Josephus ^F25 and Ben Gersom; and they might in this way be said to be taken by the Lord, because the disposition of the lot is by him, ( Proverbs 16:33 ) ; now it is said, that the tribe that should be taken, as Judah was, from what follows,

shall come according to the families [thereof];
that is, the families in that tribe, meaning the heads of them, as Kimchi well observes; these were to come to the place where the lots were cast:

and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households;
on whatsoever family in the tribe the lot should fall, the heads of households in that family should appear and have lots cast on them: and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man; that household that should be taken by lot, the men thereof, the heads of the house, should come each of them and have lots east on them, that the particular man that sinned might be discovered.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. Samaritan. Chronic. apud Hottinger. Smegma. Oriental. l. 1. c. 8. p. 505. Jarchi in loc.
F25 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 10.

Josué 7:14 In-Context

12 Por esto los hijos de Israel no podrán estar delante de sus enemigos, sino que delante de sus enemigos volverán las espaldas; por cuanto han estado en el anatema; ni estaré más con vosotros, si no destruyereis el anatema de en medio de vosotros

13 Levántate, santifica al pueblo, y di: Santificaos para mañana, porque el SEÑOR el Dios de Israel dice así: Anatema hay en medio de ti, Israel; no podrás estar delante de tus enemigos, hasta tanto que hayáis quitado el anatema de en medio de vosotros

14 Os acercaréis, pues, mañana por vuestras tribus; y la tribu que el SEÑOR tomare, se acercará por sus familias; y la familia que el SEÑOR tomare, se acercará por sus casas; y la casa que el SEÑOR tomare, se acercará por los varones

15 y el que fuere cogido en el anatema, será quemado a fuego, él y todo lo que tiene, por cuanto ha quebrantado el pacto del SEÑOR, y ha cometido locura en Israel

16 Josué, pues, levantándose de mañana, hizo acercar a Israel por sus tribus; y fue tomada la tribu de Judá