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Valley of Achor

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The valley to which, at Joshua 7:24, Joshua, and all Israel with him, bring Achan the son of Zerah and all that he had. At 7:25–26 all Israel stones Achan with stones and raises over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day; the LORD turns from the fierceness of his anger, and the text adds, “Therefore the name of that place was called ‘The valley of Achor’ to this day.”

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HOS 2:14–23, engwebp
¹⁴“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and 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.
¹⁶It will be in that day,” says the LORD, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’
¹⁷For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
¹⁹I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
²⁰I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.
²¹It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
²²and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
²³I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’”
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ISA 65:8–16, engwebp
⁸The LORD says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
⁹I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.
¹⁰Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.
¹¹“But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
¹²I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
¹³Therefore the Lord GOD says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed.
¹⁴Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.
¹⁵You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and the Lord GOD will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,
¹⁶so that he who blesses himself on the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears on the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.
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JOS 7:22–26, engwebp
²²So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
²³They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before the LORD.
²⁴Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
²⁵Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
²⁶They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.
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JOS 15:5–11, engwebp
⁵The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.
⁶The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
⁷The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.
⁸The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.
⁹The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (also called Kiriath Jearim);
¹⁰and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
¹¹and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Valley of Achor” by name and 5 shared verses. The leading identification is Al Buqay’ah (confidence 604 of 1000). The dataset gives no point for it, only the region, river or route it lies in or along, so no point is drawn for it.

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Al Buqay’ah
OpenBible.info confidence 604 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.71667, 35.38333
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Valley of Achor” (CC BY 4.0)

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Entry: Valley of Achor (place-valley-of-achor)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/valley-of-achor
Current wording: The valley to which, at Joshua 7:24, Joshua, and all Israel with him, bring Achan the son of Zerah and all that he had. At 7:25–26 all Israel stones Achan with stones and raises over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day; the LORD turns from the fierceness of his anger, and the text adds, “Therefore the name of that place was called ‘The valley of Achor’ to this day.”
Cited evidence: HOS 2:14–23, engwebp / ISA 65:8–16, engwebp / JOS 7:22–26, engwebp / JOS 15:5–11, engwebp
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