“Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks, And the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, For My people who seek Me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.
- KJV And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
- BSB Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.
- NKJV Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, For My people who have sought Me.
- NLT The plain of Sharon will again be filled with flocks for my people who have searched for me, and the valley of Achor will be a place to pasture herds.
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Quick answer
Sharon and the valley of Achor will become pastures for the flocks of those who seek God. It matters because it pictures restored peace and abundance for God's people.
Overview
Naming Sharon and Achor, regions associated with both fruitfulness and former trouble, the verse promises restoration and rest for those who seek the Lord. The valley of Achor, once a place of judgment (Joshua 7), becomes a place of peaceful pasture. This reversal pictures the peace and provision God grants His seeking people, fulfilled in the rest believers find in Christ the Shepherd.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Isa 35:2It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
- Isa 33:9The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
- Hos 2:15I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Isa 51:1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
- Josh 7:24–26Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
- Ezek 34:13–14I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
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