Hayden Is Not in the Bible: An English Name Meaning “Hay Valley”

There is a place in the book of Joshua called the Valley of Trouble. Somebody buried stolen silver there, an army lost a battle because of it, and the ground kept the name for centuries afterwards — the way a family keeps the memory of the year everything went wrong. And then Hosea, writing generations later to a people who had earned worse, says God will give her the Valley of Achor for a door of hope. Not a different…