Joshua 7:26

New International Version

Over Achan they heaped up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his fierce anger. Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor ever since.

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.

2 Samuel 21:14

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.

Ezra 10:14

Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

Psalm 85:4

Restore us again, God our Savior, and put away your displeasure toward us.

Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 65:10

Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for my people who seek me.

Lamentations 3:53

They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;

Hosea 2:15

There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

Hosea 2:17

I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.

Joel 2:13

Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

Joel 2:18

Then the Lord was jealous for his land and took pity on his people.

Jonah 1:15

Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.

Zechariah 6:8

Then he called to me, “Look, those going toward the north country have given my Spirit rest in the land of the north.”

Numbers 25:8

and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;

Deuteronomy 13:17

and none of the condemned things are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—

Deuteronomy 13:18

because you obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua gave the order and they took them down from the poles and threw them into the cave where they had been hiding. At the mouth of the cave they placed large rocks, which are there to this day.

Joshua 7:24

Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor.

Joshua 8:29

He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, 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 over it, which remains to this day.