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25 Joshua announced, “Why did you bring trouble to us? Today the Lord is bringing trouble to you!” So all Israel stoned him to death, incinerated them, and buried them with stones, 26 piling up a large mound of boulders that remains to this day. After this, the Lord turned his burning anger away, and that is why that place is called “the Valley of Achor”[a] to this day.

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  1. Joshua 7:26 The Heb. name Achor means Trouble

25 Joshua said, “Why have you brought this trouble(A) on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today.”

Then all Israel stoned him,(B) and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them.(C) 26 Over Achan they heaped(D) up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.(E) Then the Lord turned from his fierce anger.(F) Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor[a](G) ever since.

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  1. Joshua 7:26 Achor means trouble.