{"id":53471,"date":"2019-04-09T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=53471"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:41:03","slug":"spoils-of-war-spoil-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/spoils-of-war-spoil-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoils of War\u2026 Spoil Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[465,400,434],"acf":{"old_id":"53471","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"194","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But there still may be an Opening of Hope","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking spoils is generally permitted by the Torah. Indeed, we are bidden to &#8220;enjoy the spoils of your enemy which the Lord your God gives you&#8221; (Deut. 20:14). This enjoyment was practiced by the Israelites throughout the Biblical period, with a handful of notable prohibitions &#8211; one of which was Jericho. Their failure to observe this prohibition led to a most striking consequence: The very next military foray, at the city of Ai, projected to be a simple mission (7:3), failed, with the attendant deaths of 36 of the participating soldiers, because someone had sinned, took the spoils, and then tried to cover it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lottery identified the guilty party as member of the tribe of Judah named Achan (18), who confessed to his crime. Joshua, who had warned the people against the possible contamination by spoils (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">`achartem<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 6:18), accused Achan of having done just that (<em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">achartanu<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, v.25). Achan was stoned to death, and the spoils were destroyed. The description of illegal spoils as a contaminant, however, has a curious epilogue. When the genealogy of the tribe of Judah is delineated in the Book of Chronicles, the name of the person who violated the ban against spoils is rendered as Achar, rather than Achan (1 Ch. 2:7), signifying that he had been completely redefined by this incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another postscript, of sorts, attaches to the name that was given to the site at which the ill-gotten booty was burned: The people called it the \u201cValley of Contamination\u201d (<em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">emek `achor<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, v. 26). 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