Joshua 7:26

Modern English Version

Then they erected over him a large pile of stones, which is still there today. So the Lord turned from His burning anger. Therefore the name of the place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:17

Then they took Absalom, disposed of him in a large pit in the forest, and piled over him a very large heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, everyone to his home.

2 Samuel 21:14

They interred the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Kish, his father. They did everything that the king commanded. After that God was entreated regarding the land.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel so that His burning anger might turn away from us.

Ezra 10:14

Let now our rulers preside over all the congregation so that, in each of our cities, all who have married foreign women, along with the elders and judges of that city, will come at appointed times, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter is turned from us.”

Psalm 85:4

Restore us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your indignation toward us to cease.

Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath and relent of this harm against Your people.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been pardoned, that she has received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

Isaiah 65:10

Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for My people who seek Me.

Lamentations 3:53

They cut off my life in the pit and cast stones on me.

Hosea 2:15

From there, I will give her vineyards to her, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope. She will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 2:17

I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be remembered by their name.

Joel 2:13

Rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents from punishing.

Joel 2:18

Then the Lord became jealous for His land and took pity upon His people.

Jonah 1:15

So they picked up Jonah and tossed him into the sea. Then the sea ceased from its raging.

Zechariah 6:8

Then he cried out to me, “Behold, the ones going out to the northern land have given rest to my Spirit in the north.”

Numbers 25:8

and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Nothing of the cursed thing there must cling to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you, and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 13:18

if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, and do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

Joshua 10:27

At sundown Joshua commanded men to take them down from the trees and throw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves. Over the mouth of the cave he placed large stones, which remain to this day.

Joshua 7:24

Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.

Joshua 8:29

The king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening. At sunset, Joshua commanded that the people take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the city gate. They erected a large heap of stones over it that remains to this day.