Jos 7:26, Est 7:9 | JFB | e4.org | 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 ( ).

‏ Joshua 7:26

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).

‏ Esther 7:9

9. Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows—This eunuch had probably been the messenger sent with the invitation to Haman, and on that occasion had seen the gallows. The information he now volunteered, as well it may be from abhorrence of Haman's cold-blooded conspiracy as from sympathy with his amiable mistress, involved with her people in imminent peril.