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Achan (ā`kăn) or Achar (ā`kär), in the Bible, Judahite who kept some of the spoil from the city of Jericho. For this he was stoned. Achan defies God’s ban on taking booty. [O.T.: Joshua 7:1] See : Disobedience |
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But, sir, though it were more so than is even possible to you, yet there may be some among you that are not equally right in their actions: and you know that in the story of the children of Israel, one Achan in the camp removed God's blessing from them, and turned His hand so against them, that six-and-thirty of them, though not concerned in the crime, were the objects of divine vengeance, and bore the weight of that punishment. |
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