Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 7:11

11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing , and have also stollen , and dissembled also, and they have put it even amongst their own stuff .

Some, or one of them, as before on v. 1.

i. e. Broken the conditions of my Covenant which I have commanded them, and they have promised to perform, viz. Obedience to all my Commands, Exod. 19. 8. and 24. 7. whereof this was one, not to meddle with the accursed thing.

Which I charged them not to meddle with.

i. e. Taken my portion which I had reserved, Ios. 6. 19.

Covered the fact with deep dissimulation, and a real, if not verbal profession of their Innocency. Possibly Achan might be suspected, and being accused, had denied it, or was resolved to deny it.

Converted it to their own use, and added obstinacy and resolvedness to the crime; thus he loads this Sin with divers aggravations.