26. they raised over him a great heap of stones--It is customary to
raise cairns over the graves of criminals or infamous persons in the
East still.
the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor--("trouble"),
unto this day--So painful an episode would give notoriety to the spot,
and it is more than once noted by the sacred writers of a later age
(Isa 65:10;
Ho 2:15).
JFB.
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