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Valley of Achor

Valley in the Bible

Location: 31.84° N, 35.40° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)

Mentioned in 5 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Valley of Achor is mentioned

  • Hosea 2:15

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

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  • 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.

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  • Joshua 7:24–26

    24 Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor.

    25 “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

    26 And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

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  • Joshua 15:7

    Then the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning north to Gilgal, which faces the Ascent of Adummim south of the ravine. It continued along the waters of En-shemesh and came out at En-rogel.

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