Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 6:18

18 And ye, in any wise keep your selves from the accursed thing, lest ye make your selves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse , and trouble it.

By provoking God to punish them for your sin, in which they may be one way or other involved; or at least upon the occasion of your sin: for to speak properly, God will not (the case of Adams sin only excepted) punish one man for the sin of another, as he hath oft declared; but the whole Camp having sins of their own, God might take what occasion he saw fit to inflict this Punishment.

Marginal references: Deut. 7. 26. & 13. 17.