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Then the Lord told Joshua, “Today I have rolled the disgrace of Egypt away from you.” That’s why that place is called “Gilgal”[a] to this day.

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  1. Joshua 5:9 The Heb. word Gilgal means to roll

26 piling up a large mound of boulders that remains to this day. After this, the Lord turned his burning anger away, and that is why that place is called “the Valley of Achor”[a] to this day.

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  1. Joshua 7:26 The Heb. name Achor means Trouble

26 So the man traveled to the land of the Hittites and built a city that he named “Luz,” and it is called by that name to this day.

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19 So God split a hollow place that’s in Lehi, and water sprang out of it. After he had taken a drink, his strength returned, and he revived. That’s why it was named “En-hakkore,”[a] which is in Lehi to this day.

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  1. Judges 15:19 MT word En-hakkore means The Spring of the One Who Calls Out

12 They went out and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in the territory of Judah. (That’s why they call the place Mahaneh-dan to this day. It lies west of Kiriath-jearim.)

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The Edomites are Defeated(A)

Joash executed 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley and captured Sela in battle, renaming it Joktheel, which remains its name to this day.

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