A'clian (Heb. Akan' , *35, prob. troubler ; Sept. 'Av/'»' in Josh, xxii, 20, elsewhere "A,\"o), a son of Carmi, called also Acuak (1 Chron. ii, 7), in com-
lel passage (2 Chron. xxxiv, 20) he is called Annus, the son of Micah. His son Elnathan was a courtier of Jehoiakim (Jer. xxvi, 22 ; xxxvi, 12).
Achery, John Litre d', a learned Benedictine, of the congregation of Saint Maur, born at St. Quentin, in Picardy, 1609. At a very early age he entered the order of St. Benedict, and devoted himself to study, and his whole after life was passed in entire abstrac- tion from the world. He died at the abbej' of St. Ger- main-des-Prcs, in April, 1G85. To the labors of this learned writer we owe the publication of many MSS. which, but for him, would probably have still remain- ed buried in the libraries. His principal published works arc the following : 1. S. Barnabce Epistola
memoration of his crime and awful doom, as related in | 6We etLat;n IIuovn;s Memrdinotls Ulustratn ( Paris Josh, vii (see Kitto's Daihj Bible Illust. in loc). the city of Jericho, before it was taken, was put under that awful ban, of which there are other instances in the early Scripture history, whereby all the inhabi- tants (excepting Rahab and her family) were de
1645) ; 2. Lamfranci Cantuar. Episcopi Opera, together with Chronleon Beccense; B. Ilclluini et 4 priorum Beccensium Abbatum ; S. Augustini Anglorum Apos- toli vita; duo de Eucharistia Tractalus Hugonis Lrn- colnmsis Epis. et Durandi abbat. Ti-oarnensis, adver-
voted to destruction all the combustible goods to be- J mg B arium (Paris 1C48, foL). 3. Indfcuhu As- consumed by lire, and all the metals to be consecrated ; ce(icormi etc_ (Pari 1G71 4to 2d ed.) ; 4. Acta Sane to God (see Deut. vii, 16, 23-26). fins vow of de- I ,- - „ Rfinprl;rl; ;- .„„./„„..„ classes distnbw
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votement was rigidly observed by all the troops when Jericho was taken, save by one man, Achan, a Judah- ite, who could not resist the temptation of secreting an ingot of gold, a quantity of silver, and a costly Babylonish garment, which he buried in his tent, deeming that his sin was hid. The Israelites were defeated, with serious loss, in their lirst attack upon Ai ; and as Joshua was well assured that this humilia- tion was designed as the punishment of a crime which had inculpated the whole people, he took immediate measures to discover the criminal by means of the lot (q. v.). The conscience-stricken offender then con- fessed his crime to Joshua ; and his confession being verified by the production of his ill-gotten treasure, the people hurried away not only Achan, but his tent, his goods, his spoil, his cattle, his children, to the val- ley (hence afterward called) of Aehor (q. v.), near Jericho, where the}' stoned him, and all that belonged to him ; after which the whole was consumed with lire, and a cairn of stones raised over the ashes, B.C. 1618. (See Pyle, Sermons, iii, 185 ; Saurin, Disc. Hist, iii, 78 ; Simeon, Works, ii, 574 ; Buddicom, Christ. Exod. ii, 350 ; Origen, Opp. ii, 415). The severity of this act, as regards the family of Achan, has provoked some remark (see A. Clarke and Keil, in loc). In- stead of vindicating it, as is generally done, by the al- legation that the members of Achan's family were probably accessories to his crime after the fact, we prefer the supposition that they were included in the doom by one of those stern, vehement impulses of semi- martial vengeance to which the Jewish (like all ( (rien- tal) people were exceedingly prone, and which, though extreme (comp. Deut. xxiv, 1G), was permitted (for the terms "all that he hath" did not necessarily prescribe it) as a check to a cupidity that tended so strongly both to mutiny and impiety. — Kitto. See Accursed.
torum ordinis S. Benedict i in sceculorum classes distribu- ta. Although D'Achery made the necessary collec- tions for this work, it was published with notes and observations by Mabillon, after his death, at various periods [see Acta Sanctorum] ; 5. Veterum aliquot Scriptorum qui in Gallice Bibliothecis delituerant, max- ime Benedictinorum, Spicilegium. Published at Paris, at different periods, from 1655 to 1677, by different printers, in 13 vols. 4to. A new and improved edi- tion was published by M. de la Barre, at Paris, in 1723, 3 vols, fol., with this title, Spicilegium, sive CoU lectio veterum aliquot Scriptorum qui in Gallia; Biblio- thecis delituerant, olim editum opera • t studio D. Luca; d' Achery, etc., ed. Baluze, Martene, et de la Barre. This collection contains a vast number of works of dif- ferent authors, Acts and Canons of Councils, Histories, Chronicles, Lives of Saints, Letters, Poems, and Doc- uments, which had not previously appeared. The ob- ligations of subsequent scholars have been so great to the indefatigable industry of d' Achery, that almost every one who has treated of the antiquities of medie- val and modern European history has been obliged to acknowledge the debt due to him.
Achiach'arus (Ayi«y«(>0Ci for Heb. "plrlNpflN, brother of the following, perh. i. q. posthumous or latest), the son of Anael (or Ananiel), and the uncle of Tobit (Tob. i, 21), as also of Nasbas (Tob. xi, 18). He had experienced ingratitude at the hands of Aman (Tob. xiv, 10), but became the cup-bearer and vizier of Sarchedon (Tob. i, 22), and befriended Tobit (Tob. ii, 10). See Horde, ai.