Joshua 7:1
However, the Israelites had not been faithful regarding those things set apart for the Lord. Achan had taken some of them which made the Lord very angry with the Israelites. Achan was the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah.
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Genesis 34:27Jacob's other sons arrived, robbed the dead bodies, and looted the town where their sister had been violated.
Joshua 6:17The city and everything in it is to be set apart for the Lord and destroyed. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.
Joshua 22:16“This is what all of the Lord's people say, ‘What is this disloyal act you have committed against the God of Israel by building an altar for yourselves? How could you turn away from him now in such rebellion?
Joshua 22:20When Achan, son of Zerah, acted disloyally in taking consecrated things, didn't the whole of Israel suffer punishment? He wasn't the only one who died because of his sin!’”
1 Chronicles 2:6The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol and Darda —a total of five.
1 Chronicles 21:7The Lord considered the census a bad thing to do and he punished Israel for it.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 7:1
More than once we have found the affairs of Israel, even when they were in the happiest posture and gave the most hopeful prospects, perplexed and embarrassed by sin, and a stop thereby put to the most promising proceedings. The golden calf, the murmuring at Kadesh, and the iniquity of Peor, had broken their measures and given them great disturbance; and in this chapter we have such another instance of the interruption given to the progress of their arms by sin. But it being only the sin of one person or family,… Read the whole commentary →