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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 (EBD)|Jericho]], he seized, contrary to the divine command, an ingot of [[Text:EBD:Gold (EBD)|gold]], a quantity of [[Text:EBD:Silver (EBD)|silver]], and a costly [[Text:EBD:Babylonish garment (EBD)|Babylonish garment]], which he hid in his [[Text:EBD:Tent (EBD)|tent]]. [[Text:EBD:Joshua (EBD)|Joshua]] was convinced that the defeat which the [[Text:EBD:Israel (EBD)|Israelites]] afterwards sustained before [[Text:EBD:Ai (EBD)|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 (EBD)|lot]] for discovering the criminal. It was then found that Achan was guilty, and he was [[Text:EBD:Stoning (EBD)|stoned]] to [[Text:EBD:Death (EBD)|death]] in the [[Text:EBD:Valley (EBD)|valley]] of [[Text:EBD:Achor (EBD)|Achor]]. He and all that belonged to him were then consumed by [[Text:EBD:Fire (EBD)|fire]], and a heap of [[Text:EBD:Stone (EBD)|stones]] was raised over the [[Text:EBD:Ashes (EBD)|ashes]].