Joshua 7:24

son of Zerah Strictly, his great-grandson.

and his sons, and his daughters Some have thought they were brought to the valley merely as spectators, that they might have a terrible warning: others think they must have been accomplices in his sin, and as he by his own act had placed himself under a ban (Joshua 6:18), so all that he had was treated as coming under the same law. (Comp. Deuteronomy 13:15-17.)

the valley Henceforth known by the name of "Achor," i.e. causing trouble and sorrow. Comp. Joshua 15:7, "And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor;" Isaiah 65:10, "And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achora place for the herds to lie down in;" Hosea 2:15, "And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achorfor a door of hope." The exact site of the valley is unknown, but it was somewhere on the northern border of the tribe of Judah, among the ridges to the south of Jericho.