Our Communal Responsibility

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing; . . . and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel, Joshua 7:l We all are acquainted with the account of how God gave Israel the victory over Jericho as the key city to the land of Canaan. We also know about Achan, who took of the things that God had cursed, things that Israel might not keep to themselves, and hid them in his tent. We know how God brought defeat upon Israel in their attack upon Ai,...