SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:26
y levantaron sobre ellos un gran montón de piedras, hasta hoy. Y el SEÑOR se tornó de la ira de su furor. Y por esto fue llamado aquel lugar el Valle de Acor, hasta hoy.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 7:26
Verse 26. They raised over him a great heap of stones] The burial-places, both of heroes and eminent culprits, were anciently thus distinguished; and transactions of this kind gave rise to those great piles of stones called cairns, that are so frequently to be met with, especially in northern countries. FROM the whole of this account we may see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the great danger of not withstanding its first approaches. By covetousness many lives and many souls have been destroyed, and yet the living lay it not to heart! Who fears the love of money, provided he can get riches? Through the intensity of this desire, every part of the surface of the earth, and as far as possible its bowels, are ransacked in order to get wealth; and God alone can tell, who sees all things, to how many private crimes, frauds, and dissimulations, this gives birth; by which the wrath of God is brought down upon the community at large! Who is an enemy to his country? The sinner against his God. An open foe may be resisted and repelled, because he is known; but the covetous man, who, as far as his personal safety will admit, is outraging all the requisitions of justice, is an unseen pestilence, sowing the seeds of desolation and ruin in society. Achan's covetousness, which led him to break the law of God, had nearly proved the destruction of the Israelitish camp, nor would the Lord turn away from his displeasure till the evil was detected, and the criminal punished. Reader, is the face of God turned against thee, because of some private transgression? Are not thy circumstances and family suffering in consequence of something in thy private life? O search and try thy ways, return to God, and humble thyself before him lest thy iniquity instantly find thee out.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day , etc.] 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 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 f128 , it was twelve miles from Jerusalem; Jerom says it was at the north of Jericho, but Lamy f130 , following Bonfrerius, places it to the south; (see Joshua 15:7).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16-26 - See the folly of those that promise themselves secrecy in sin. The righteous God has many ways of bringing to light the hidden works of darkness. See also, how much it is our concern, when God is contendin with us, to find out the cause that troubles us. We must pray with holy Job, Lord, show me wherefore thou contendest with me. Achan's sin bega in the eye. He saw these fine things, as Eve saw the forbidden fruit See what comes of suffering the heart to walk after the eyes, and what need we have to make this covenant with our eyes, that if they wande they shall be sure to weep for it. It proceeded out of the heart. The that would be kept from sinful actions, must mortify and check i themselves sinful desires, particularly the desire of worldly wealth Had Achan looked upon these things with an eye of faith, he would have seen they were accursed things, and would have dreaded them; but looking on them with an eye of sense only, he saw them as goodl things, and coveted them. When he had committed the sin, he tried to hide it. As soon as he had got this plunder, it became his burden, an he dared not to use his ill-gotten treasure. So differently do object of temptation appear at a distance, to what they do when they have bee gotten. See the deceitfulness of sin; that which is pleasing in the commission, is bitter in the reflection. See how they will be deceive that rob God. Sin is a very troublesome thing, not only to a sinne himself, but to all about him. The righteous God will certainl recompense tribulation to them that trouble his people. Achan perishe not alone in his sin. They lose their own, who grasp at more than their own. His sons and daughters were put to death with him. It is probabl that they helped to hide the things; they must have known of them. What fatal consequences follow, even in this world, to the sinner himself and to all belonging him! One sinner destroys much good. What, then will be the wrath to come? Let us flee from it to Christ Jesus as the sinner's Friend. There are circumstances in the confession of Achan marking the progress of sin, from its first entrance into the heart to its being done, which may serve as the history of almost every offenc against the law of God, and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויקימו 6965 עליו 5921 גל 1530 אבנים 68 גדול 1419 עד 5704 היום 3117 הזה 2088 וישׁב 7725 יהוה 3068 מחרון 2740 אפו 639 על 5921 כן 3651 קרא 7121 שׁם 8034 המקום 4725 ההוא 1931 עמק 6010 עכור 5911 עד 5704 היום 3117 הזה׃ 2088
