were accursed] Have a judgement lying upon them, occasioned by such a sin, as before, 5: 1. the accursed] 1: o. The man who committed the fact about the accursed thing, and so himself is become accursed, and all his, with the contagion of his sin: 1: e. not onely Achan himself, but also all his family and goods, as being in the same sin. So 5: 24.