--- title: "Bullinger" description: "children = sons. a trespass = a treachery, unfaithfulness. Hebrew ma" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/joshua/7" --- **children** = sons. **a trespass** = a treachery, unfaithfulness. Hebrew ma'al. App-43 . Compare [Leviticus 6:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/6/2) . Deu 32:51 . [1 Chronicles 5:25](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/5/25) , breach of faith or trust. **accursed** = devoted. Compare [Joshua 6:17](../../../kjv/joshua/6/17) , &c. **Achan** Troubler; called Achar, [1 Chronicles 2:7](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/7) . **took.** Septuagint has *enosphisanto* = took for themselves, i.e. sacrilege. Same word as in [Acts 5:1](../../../kjv/acts/5/1) , [Acts 5:2](../../../kjv/acts/5/2) of Ananias and Sapphire. **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **men.** Hebrew, plural of *ish* or *'enosh* . App-14 . **Ai.** Near Beth-el. Compare [Genesis 12:8](../../../kjv/genesis/12/8) ; [Genesis 13:3](../../../kjv/genesis/13/3) . **Beth-aven** = House of vanity. **Beth-el** = House of God. Compare [Genesis 28:19](../../../kjv/genesis/28/19) . **go up** = go toilingly thither. **men** = Hebrew. *ish* . App-14 . **melted** = became as water. Figure of speech *Hyperbole.* App-6 . **Alas.** Figure of speech *Ecphonesis.* App-6 **Lord GOD** = *Adonai Jehovah* . See App-4 . **wherefore. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **would to God.** Hebrew "would that". No "to God "in Hebrew text. **O LORD *,** Hebrew O Adonai; but this is one of the 134 places altered from *Jehovah* to *Adonai* by the Sopherim **turneth** = hath [once] turned. **what. ?** Figure of speech *, Erotesis.* App-6 . **said.** See note on [Joshua 3:7](../../../kjv/joshua/3/7) . **and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton.* App-6 . **for** *= and.* All these "ands" might be well rendered "moreover". **(10-13)** There is a minute correspondence between [Joshua 7:10-13](../../../kjv/joshua/7/10-13) , an *Extended alternation* of five members each, for which we have no space; also between [Joshua 7:14](../../../kjv/joshua/7/14) and [Joshua 7:16-18](../../../kjv/joshua/7/16-18) . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim* . App-4 . **taketh** = taketh [by lot], i.e. by the *Urim* and *Thummim.* Sec note on [Exodus 28:30](../../../kjv/exodus/28/30) and [Numbers 26:55](../../../kjv/numbers/26/55) . The *Urim* stone bringing to "light" the guilty, and the Thummim declaring the "perfection" or innocence. **man** = geber. App-14 . **burnt** = burnt up, but not necessarily alive, Hebrew. *saraph.* See App-43 . **family** Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read plural "families". **man by man** . Some codices, with two early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "by their households". **give . . . glory to the LORD.** All the Vulgate versions corrupt this passage by omitting "to Him". The Portuguese version of Figuoredo changes "Him" to "me". **a** = one. **Babylonish.** Hebrew = "of Shinar", i.e. of Babylonia. **shekels.** See App-51 . **Wedge** = bar. Hebrew tongue: put by Figure of speech, *Metonymy* (of Adjunct) for a coin of this shape ( App-6 ). **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos,* App-6 ). **it.** Feminine. Probably referring to the garment. **the midst.** Figure of speech *Pleonasm* ( App-6 ). **son of Zerah.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species) for great-grandson. App-6 . **and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysendeton* ( App-6 ), emphasising each particular. **Why. . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis* ( App-6 ). **troubled . . . trouble.** Hebrew. *Achored . . . 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