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Called also Achar, i.e., one who troubles (1 Chr. 2:7), in commemoration of his crime, which brought upon him an awful destruction (Josh. 7:1). On the occasion of the fall of [[Text:EBD:Jericho|Jericho]], he seized, contrary to the divine command, an ingot of [[Text:EBD:Gold|gold]], a quantity of [[Text:EBD:Silver|silver]], and a costly [[Text:EBD:Babylonish garment|Babylonish garment]], which he hid in his [[Text:EBD:Tent|tent]]. [[Text:EBD:Joshua|Joshua ]] was convinced that the defeat which the [[Text:EBD:Israel|Israelites ]] afterwards sustained before [[Text:EBD:Ai |Ai]] was a proof of the divine displeasure on account of some crime, and he at once adopted means by the use of the [[Text:EBD:Lot|lot ]] for discovering the criminal. It was then found that Achan was guilty, and he was [[Text:EBD:Stoning|stoned ]] to [[Text:EBD:Death|death ]] in the [[Text:EBD:Valley|valley ]] of [[Text:EBD:Achor|Achor]]. He and all that belonged to him were then consumed by [[Text:EBD:Fire|fire]], and a heap of [[Text:EBD:Stone|stones ]] was raised over the [[Text:EBD:Ashes|ashes]].

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