20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

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20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

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21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; (A)so you shall put away the evil from among you, (B)and all Israel shall hear and fear.

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21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death.(A) You must purge the evil(B) from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.(C)

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26 Then they (A)raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So (B)the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called (C)the Valley of [a]Achor to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 7:26 Lit. Trouble

26 Over Achan they heaped(A) up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.(B) Then the Lord turned from his fierce anger.(C) Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor[a](D) ever since.

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  1. Joshua 7:26 Achor means trouble.

29 (A)And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. (B)And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and (C)raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.

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29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset,(A) Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks(B) over it, which remains to this day.

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