And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan - himself, with his children and all his property, cattle as well as moveables, were brought into one of the long broad ravines that open into the Ghor; and after being stoned to death (Numbers 15:30-35), his corpse, with all belonging to him, was consumed to ashes by fire. "All Israel" were present, not only as spectators, but active agents, as many as possible, in inflicting the punishment-thus testifying their abhorrence of the sacrilege, and their intense solicitude to regain the divine favour. Since the divine law expressly forbade the children to be put to death for the fathers' sins (Deuteronomy 24:16), the conveyance of Achan's "sons and ... daughters" to the place of execution might be only as spectators, that they might take warning by the parental fate; or, if they shared his punishment (Joshua 22:20), they had probably been accomplices in his crime: and, indeed, he could scarcely have dug a hole within his tent without his family being privy to it.