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These intercessions Joshua put up to God, as he lay prostrate on
his face: whereupon God answered him, That he should rise up, and purify
his host from the pollution that had got into it; that "things consecrated
to me have been impudently stolen from me," and that "this has
been the occasion why this defeat had happened to them;" and that
when they should search out and punish the offender, he would ever take
care they should have the victory over their enemies. This Joshua told
the people; and calling for Eleazar the high priest, and the men in authority,
he cast lots, tribe by tribe; and when the lot showed that this wicked
action was done by one of the tribe of Judah, he then again proposed the
lot to the several families thereto belonging; so the truth of this wicked
action was found to belong to the family of Zachar; and when the inquiry
was made man by man, they took Achar, who, upon God's reducing him
to a terrible extremity, could not deny the fact: so he confessed the theft,
and produced what he had taken in the midst of them, whereupon he was immediately
put to death; and attained no more than to be buried in the night in a
disgraceful manner, and such as was suitable to a condemned malefactor.
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