Achor
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Achor ( "muddy, turbid: gloomy, dejected") is the name of a valley in the vicinity of Jericho.
== History == The Book of Joshua, chapter seven, relates the story from which the valley's name comes. After the problems the Israelites had as a result of Achan's immoral theft of items commanded to be destroyed, the Israelite community stoned Achan and his household. The narrative about Achan is etiological, presenting a folk etymology.
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