and other lifeleſs things, as the manner was with accurſed things, Deut, Il3. 16.
26 And they raiſed over him a great heap of ſlones /
mighty men of valour, and ſent them away by night.
c (i.e,) To confider and conclude abour this Expedition of go« ing againſt 4/; not as if all the people of war did a&ually go ups which was both unneceflary and burdenſom, and might hinder
-their following deſign: Bur it ſeems to be reſolved by Joſbua and
all the Council of War, That the 3ooco here following ſhould be
ſelefed for the Enterprize. Either 1+ The 30000 now mentioned;
Or, 2. Peart of them; To wit, Such as were to lie in wait, as ſeems moſt probable both from the next verſe, which limits it ro thoſe who were to /ie in wait, and from verſe 9. where what is here mentioned «©nly by anticiparion, is aftually put in execution ; and it is ſaid of them that were ſent forth, that they went to lie in am- buſh, and did ſo; And theſe were only 52509 men, as is expreſſed verſe 12. And the only inconvenience of this Expoſition is, That the Pronoun Relative them, 1s pur without, or before its Anteces dent, which is lef: to be gathered our of the following words, which 1s not unuſual in the Hebrew Tongue,as plainly appears from Exod, 14. '9. Numb. 18. 9,and 24. 17. Pſal. 87. 1. and 105. 19. and 114, 2. Prov. 7.8. and 14. 26.
was obſtrudted by thee ; and of his ig; = COON his | unto this day : ſothe LORD turned from the fierceneſs * Us Ox: Rn eby _ Fe" >" Bo pennry ty, To om his anger : wherefore the name of thar place was cal- ,_';;. © 2o And Achan anſwered Joſhua, and ſaid, Indeed, I led, * the valley of F Achor ” unto this day. | + Thar is, . re mentioned, that #reuble, h faad 2 | the LORD » God of Iſrael x, and ! As a monument of the ſin and judgment here d, that #rouble ave nned 7 again 5 others mighr be inſtrufed and warned by the Example; and as a thus and thus have I done. brand of infamy, as Joſh. 8. 20. 2 Sam. 18. 179. m Or, thewalleyof .
5 He ſeems to make a ſincere and ingenuous Confeſſion, and | ;944/e, from the double trouble expreſſed, verſe 25: loads his fin with all juſt Aggravations. « Againſt hisexpreſs Com- C H A Þ. VIIL | mand, and _ Rights, _— a wage regs on le hope men God puts new courage into Joſhua : Commands him to go and beſiege Ai, pro= who hath choſen me and all Jae! to be the peop P miſing he ſbould rake it, 1,2.” Tye Stratagem whereby it is taken. 3. I Love and Care. s te Dolndlceath is burnt, 5 22. The King is taken priſoner : The inhabitants areput
21 When [ ſaw 7 among the ſpoil a good y DAaDbyion! to the ſword : The cattel and goods ſpoiled : The King is hanged, 23 —29,
Heb. garment 2, and two hundred ſhekels 4 of {11ver, and a T' Joſhua builds an Altar, 30, Offers thereon, 31. Writes the Law on
mgut wedge of gold, of fifty (bekels weight :, then l coveted Stones, 32. - and its Bleſſmgs and curſes are read before the People, chem, and took them, and behold, they are hid in the | BIS 7 Gp 5g nco Jolkua, * Fear noe. nes. * Deutt: earth in the midſt of my tent, and the ſilver underit 6. A ther be cd: obo h ms I 21. & 7.
3 He accurately deſcribes the progreſs of his ſin, which began : -( JE@: tAKEAI the PEOPIE Of WAT 18. at his eye, which he permitted to gaze and fix upon them, which with thee a, and arile and go up to Ai; fee, I have gi- ' inflamed his deſire, and made him cover them ; and that deſire put | ven into thine handthe king of Ai, and his people, and him upon Attion, and made him #ake them ; _ — _— re- | his City, and his land. 4 Which were Lompoſtd rich great art with divers colours, and of | ,, 2 2%5"1Y+ © Arengrhen them agzinſt rhoſe fears which cheir lat
"9 deteat had wrought 1n them ; and partly that all of them might be Ee erent Fn ny Larin Haſs 3s To wit, in | bars ofthis haſt ſpoil, and thercoy be encouraged eo proceed in | - . . ; 'ork. ak e were not to go, becauſe the gt not " P57 - = 14 _ O—_ PREY might have hindred them in the following Stratagem; And it _ bf vgs, apt ” _ D naecr ) ; oy fit _ _ EY _ "a TURE row owes hazards, ſhould : av recedency an
' 22 SO Jothua ſent meſſengers c, and they ran 4 unto y wes And thou ut dba Ai b and he King, as thou + 644, 6 _ _ and behold, it e was hid in his tent, and the | 1:46... * Jericho and her King c 2 * only A fooll 0 ap. 6. HVET Under It.
c That the truth of his Confeſſion might be evidenr and unqre- — (> rag 19190 99 = _ for a prey un-_ — ſtionable, which ſome, peradventure migh: think was forced from your 1ay Ne m u or the City behindit. 2%. 44+ him. dPartly longing to free themſelves and all : he people from the 4 (i.e:) The City and People of 47. c (*. e.) Overcome and de- curſe under which they lay: and partly that none of Achans Relations ſtroy them. This was enjoyned par tly rochaſtiſe their lait Inſolence, or others might get thither before them, and take away : hoſe things. and the triumphs and þlajphcmies which doubtleſs their ſucceſs proa e (1.e.) The parcel ofthings mentioned verſe 21. and ry _—— pouuy vey" nes moons ng wit
: : k L Sruine, and had been much.
br And they cook them Ga ur of _ _ O— abared by the late ſucceſs of 4;; and their confidence and expeQati«
, an brought them unto Joſbua,and unto a U1GTICN | on of further and greater fucceſs much raiſed, ; Heb.) of Iſrael, and Þ laid them our before the LORD f. SO joilua arole, and all the people of war, ro go pred, f Where Joſhua and the Elders continued yer in their Aſſembly, | 15*$,04;inft Aj ct And Joſhua choole out thirty thouſand
4 And he commanded them «, ſaying, Behold, ye .
ſhall lie in wait againſt the cicy, ever behind the city 3 20 not very far from thecity, bar be yeall ready :
d the ſame party laſt ſpoken of verſe 3. even the 5000 mention= ed verſe 12. This hiſtorical Narration ſeems obſcure and intricate,
at firſt view to make three parties, one of 30000, verſe 3. one of
5000, verſe i2. which may ſeem to be two ſeveral Ambuſhes ; and
a third of all the people, verſes 5. 11. Bur ifir be more narrowly