Joshua 7:26

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They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.

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Ai was a Canaanite town west of the Jordan near Bethel, where Israel’s defeat exposed Achan’s sin after Jericho’s fall; Shinar was the Mesopotamian region from which he had taken a forbidden garment. The Valley of Achor, likely near Ai, became the place of Achan’s judgment and a lasting witness to God’s holy justice.

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Joshua 7:26 mentions Ai, Bethel, Jericho, Jordan, Shinar and Valley of Achor.