Giosué 7:26

26 Poi alzarono sopra lui un gran monte di pietre, il qual dura infino a questo giorno. E il Signore s’acquetò della sua ardente ira: per ciò quel luogo è stato nominato: Valle di Acor, fino al dì d’oggi.

Giosué 7:26 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 7:26

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this
day
That is, at the place where he suffered, or where they laid his ashes, they heaped up a pile of stones over him, as a monument whereby it might be known hereafter where he was executed and was buried; and which pile continued to the writing of this history: such sort of funeral monuments were usual with the Heathens ^F19 also as well as with the Jews, see ( Joshua 8:29 ) ( 2 Samuel 18:17 ) ; so the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger; or the effects of it ceased; the outward face of things was altered, the dealings of God in his providence with Israel were changed; though, properly speaking, there is no change in God, nor such affections and passions in him as in man:

wherefore the name of the place was called the valley of Achor unto
this day;
from the trouble Achan met with, and the people of Israel on his account, see ( Joshua 7:24 ) ; and so it was called in the days of Isaiah and Hosea, ( Isaiah 65:10 ) ( Hosea 2:15 ) ; and where it is prophesied of as what should be in time to come: according to Bunting ^F20, it was twelve miles from Jerusalem; Jerom ^F21 says it was at the north of Jericho, but Lamy ^F23, following Bonfrerius, places it to the south; see ( Joshua 15:7 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Vid. Pausan. Arcadica, sive, l. 8. p. 477. & Phocica, sive, l. 10. p. 616, 617.
F20 Travels of the Patriarchs p. 98.
F21 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. B.
F23 Apparat. Geograph. p. 61.

Giosué 7:26 In-Context

24 E Giosuè, e tutto Israele con lui, presero Acan, figliuolo di Zera, e l’argento, e la mantellina, e il regol d’oro, e i figliuoli e le figliuole di esso, e i suoi buoi, e i suoi asini, e le sue pecore, e il suo padiglione, e tutto ciò ch’era suo, e li menarono nella valle di Acor.

25 E Giosuè disse ad Acan: Perchè ci hai tu conturbati? il Signore ti conturbi in questo giorno. E tutto Israele lo lapidò con pietre; e, dopo aver lapidati gli altri con pietre, li bruciarono tutti col fuoco.

26 Poi alzarono sopra lui un gran monte di pietre, il qual dura infino a questo giorno. E il Signore s’acquetò della sua ardente ira: per ciò quel luogo è stato nominato: Valle di Acor, fino al dì d’oggi.