THE VALLEY OF TROUBLE — named from the verb akhar when Achan was stoned there: why have you troubled us? Jehovah will trouble you this day … therefore the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor, until this day (Joshua 7:24–26, now on these pages). The name stands in five verses of the Hebrew Bible: twice there; Joshua 15:7, where it is a point on the northern border of Judah, near Gilgal and the ascent of Adummim; Isaiah 65:10, where it becomes a place for herds to lie down; and Hosea 2:17 (none yet on these pages), the verse that made the name famous the other way round — I will give her … the Valley of Achor as a door of hope, petach tiqvah, the tiqvah that was Rahab’s cord. The Greek Bible names it twice in one verse, translated and transliterated, pharanga Achōr and Emekachōr. ⚠ Its location is not settled. The border of Joshua 15:7 points at the hills west of Jericho; the older identification is the Wadi Qelt, the gorge that comes down to Jericho from the west, and a newer one is the Buqei’ah, the upland basin south-west of Jericho above the Dead Sea, proposed from Iron Age remains found there. The coordinates here sit on the Wadi Qelt and are marked approximate; the cairn the chapter says stood until this day has not been found.