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Joshua 7:26 KJV
Joshua · chapter 7 · verse 26
And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.Joshua 7:26 · King James Version
Joshua 7:26 in context
24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
25And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fiercenesschârôwna burning of angerH2740 →
- raisedqûwmto riseH6965 →
- stonesʼebena stoneH68 →
- turnedshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- greatgâdôwlgreatH1419 →
- angerʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
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We have in these verses, I. The discovery of Achan by the lot, which proved a perfect lot, though it proceeded gradually. Though we may suppose that Joshua slept the better, and with more ease and satisfaction, when he knew the worst of the disease of that body of which, under God, he was the head, and was put into a…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-26