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Josue 7:26
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26 Ug sa ibabaw niya gitapok ang daghang mga bato, ug anaa hangtud niining adlawa. Ug si Jehova mibiya sa kabangis sa iyang kasuko. Tungod niana, hangtud niining adlawa, ang ngalan niadtong dapita gitawag. Ang Walog sa Achor.
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raised: Joshua 8:29, Joshua 10:27, 2 Samuel 18:17, Lamentations 3:53
So the Lord: Deuteronomy 13:17, 2 Samuel 21:14, Isaiah 40:2, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:18, John 3:9, John 3:10, Zechariah 6:8
The valley: Joshua 7:24, Isaiah 65:10, Hosea 2:15
Achor: that is, Trouble, Joshua 7:25
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:46 - Gather Exodus 32:12 - Turn from Numbers 25:4 - that the fierce Numbers 25:11 - turned my Joshua 7:15 - he that is Joshua 15:7 - the valley Judges 2:5 - Bochim Judges 7:25 - rock Ezra 10:14 - the fierce Acts 5:4 - why Hebrews 12:15 - trouble
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day,.... That is, at the place where he suffered, or where they laid his ashes, they heaped up a pile of stones over him, as a monument whereby it might be known hereafter where he was executed and was buried; and which pile continued to the writing of this history: such sort of funeral monuments were usual with the Heathens s also as well as with the Jews, see Joshua 8:29; so the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger; or the effects of it ceased; the outward face of things was altered, the dealings of God in his providence with Israel were changed; though, properly speaking, there is no change in God, nor such affections and passions in him as in man:
wherefore the name of the place was called the valley of Achor unto this day; from the trouble Achan met with, and the people of Israel on his account, see Joshua 7:24; and so it was called in the days of Isaiah and Hosea, Isaiah 65:10; and where it is prophesied of as what should be in time to come: according to Bunting t, it was twelve miles from Jerusalem; Jerom u says it was at the north of Jericho, but Lamy w, following Bonfrerius, places it to the south; see
Joshua 15:7.
s Vid. Pausan. Arcadica, sive, l. 8. p. 477. & Phocica, sive, l. 10. p. 616, 617. t Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 98. u De loc. Heb. fol. 88. B. w Apparat. Geograph. p. 61.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A great heap of stones - As a memorial of Achan’s sin and its punishment. (Compare Joshua 8:29; 2 Samuel 18:17.)
The valley of Achor - Compare the marginal references. This valley formed part of the northern border of Judah Joshua 15:7; and must therefore have lain among the ridges which cross the plain to the south of Jericho. But its exact site is uncertain. (Conder identifies it with Wady Kelt.)
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 7:26. They raised over him a great heap of stones — The burial-places, both of heroes and eminent culprits, were anciently thus distinguished; and transactions of this kind gave rise to those great piles of stones called cairns, that are so frequently to be met with, especially in northern countries.
FROM the whole of this account we may see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the great danger of not withstanding its first approaches. By covetousness many lives and many souls have been destroyed, and yet the living lay it not to heart! Who fears the love of money, provided he can get riches? Through the intensity of this desire, every part of the surface of the earth, and as far as possible its bowels, are ransacked in order to get wealth; and God alone can tell, who sees all things, to how many private crimes, frauds, and dissimulations, this gives birth; by which the wrath of God is brought down upon the community at large! Who is an enemy to his country? The sinner against his God. An open foe may be resisted and repelled, because he is known; but the covetous man, who, as far as his personal safety will admit, is outraging all the requisitions of justice, is an unseen pestilence, sowing the seeds of desolation and ruin in society. Achan's covetousness, which led him to break the law of God, had nearly proved the destruction of the Israelitish camp, nor would the Lord turn away from his displeasure till the evil was detected, and the criminal punished.
Reader, is the face of God turned against thee, because of some private transgression? Are not thy circumstances and family suffering in consequence of something in thy private life? O search and try thy ways, return to God, and humble thyself before him lest thy iniquity instantly find thee out.