Joshua 7:25

Why hast thou troubled us?] Compare the question of Ahab to Elijah, "Art thou he that troublethIsrael?" (1 Kings 18:17). "For thou disturblidist us, the Lord schall disturble the in this dai," Wyclif.

And all Israel stoned him The use of the singular here and in the following verse is deserving of notice. It suggests that it does not necessarily follow that the sons and daughters of Achan were burned with him. In this case "the plural number used would refer only to the oxen, asses, and sheep, and all that Achan possessed." Edersheim. Stoning was the ordinary mode of execution (Exodus 17:4), especially for idolatry and blasphemy (1 Kings 21:10).

and burned them with fire This was a terrible aggravation of the ordinary punishment of death, Leviticus 20:14.