 From a textual point of view, it exonerates the Israelites from any question of condemning a man without evidence other than cleromancy, and thus avoids questions over the validity of supernatural tests of guilt.The narrative states that the location for this punishment of Achan, which lies between Jericho and Ai, became known as the "vale of Achor" in memory of him.This narrative is probably an etiological myth providing a folk etymology for "Achor", at the point in the narrative where the vale of Achor is necessarily crossed.