18 And you, (A)by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, (B)and trouble it.

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18 But keep away from the devoted things,(A) so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction(B) and bring trouble(C) on it.

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The son of (A)Carmi was [a]Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the (B)accursed[b] thing.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:7 Achan, Josh. 7:1
  2. 1 Chronicles 2:7 banned or devoted

The son of Karmi:

Achar,[a](A) who brought trouble on Israel by violating the ban on taking devoted things.[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:7 Achar means trouble; Achar is called Achan in Joshua.
  2. 1 Chronicles 2:7 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

12 (A)I could wish that those (B)who trouble you would even [a]cut themselves off!

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  1. Galatians 5:12 mutilate themselves

12 As for those agitators,(A) I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

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