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2. THE SPIES AND RAHAB'S FAITH
CHAPTER 2
_ 1. The spies sent forth (Joshua 2:1)_
2. Rahab's faith and works (Joshua 2:2)
3. The escape of the spies and assurance given (Joshua 2:15)
4. The return...
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II. TWO HEBREW SPIES VISIT JERICHO AND EVADE CAPTURE. The narrative is
inconsistent with Joshua 1:11, Within three days ye are to pass over
Jordan. The events in ch. 2 must have taken longer than thre...
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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asteriemos._ App-6.
CHILDREN. sons....
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_it was told the king_ Jericho was the residence of a "king" or
"chief," a fenced city, enclosed by walls of considerable breadth, and
not only contained sheep and oxen, but abounded in "silver and go...
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_Rahab Hides the Spies Joshua 2:1-7_
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly,
saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a
harlot's house, named...
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THE TWO SPIES AT JERICHO
Joshua himself had been one of twelve sent by Moses on a similar
errand, some thirty-eight years before (Numbers 13). The incident,
natural in itself, acquires a special inter...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 2
JOSHUA SENDS TWO MEN TO LOOK OVER THE LAN...
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וַ יֵּ֣אָמַ֔ר לְ מֶ֥לֶךְ יְרִיחֹ֖ו לֵ
אמֹ֑ר
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CHAPTER VII.
THE SPIES IN JERICHO.
Joshua 2:1.
IT was not long ere Joshua found an occasion not only for the exercise
of that courage to which he had been so emphatically called both by
God and the...
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A HEATHEN WOMAN'S ACT OF FAITH
Joshua 2:1
“To view the land” was a hazardous undertaking. The physiognomy of
the Hebrews would certainly betray them, and it did. The sacred writer
does not commend Ra...
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Forty years before this time the spies had been sent out and had
brought back to Moses their reports of the land. Of these, Joshua had
been one of the two who had brought back a report revealing their...
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The third thing Joshua did was to secretly send two spies to Jericho
to survey the surrounding land and especially the city. These two
found a woman of faith in a heathen city. Rahab was a harlot livi...
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_By night. Hebrew, "this night." (Calmet)_...
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The alarm of the king of Jericho was very natural. He and his people
had heard of Israel, and of the Lord being among them. Remember God's
promise. Deuteronomy 2:25....
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The book of Joshua naturally follows the five books of Moses, and
indeed is connected more manifestly with those that go before it than
might appear to an ordinary reader. It opens not with a mere par...
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2._And it was told the king, _etc. It is probable that watchmen had
been appointed to take notice of suspicious strangers, as is wont to
be done in doubtful emergencies, or during an apprehension of w...
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The second chapter contains the interesting history of Rahab. How
beautiful. it is to see the grace of God setting up its way-marks from
the beginning, that the eye of faith may know where to rest, wh...
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AND IT WAS TOLD THE KING OF JERICHO, SAYING,.... Who being alarmed at
the near approach of the Israelites, and knowing their claim to the
land of Canaan, and their design upon it, employed men to watc...
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And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in
hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
Ver. 2. _And it was told the king of Jericho._] Kings have...
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_To-night_ This evening. Probably Israel had but one friend in all
Jericho, and God directed them to her! Thus, what seems to be most
accidental is often overruled to serve the great ends of Providenc...
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1 Rahab receiueth and concealeth the two spies sent from Shittim.
8 The couenant betweene her and them.
23 Their returne and relation.
1 AND Ioshua the sonne of Nun sent out of Shittim two men, to s...
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The Spies at Rahab's House...
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And it was told the king of Jericho, probably by some of the watch who
had marked the coming of the strangers, SAYING, BEHOLD, THERE CAME MEN
IN HITHER TO-NIGHT OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO SEARCH OUT...
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THE SPIES RECEIVED AND HIDDEN BY RAHAB
(vv. 1-24)
Joshua then sent two spies to "view the land, especially Jericho"(v.
1).Twelve men had been sent before at the request of the people
(Deuteronomy 1:...
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1-7 Faith in God's promises ought not to do away, but to encourage
our diligence in the use of proper means. The providence of God
directed the spies to the house of Rahab. God knew where there was o...
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TO-NIGHT; this evening, by comparing this with JOSHUA 2:5....
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Joshua 2:2 told H559 (H8735) king H4428 Jericho H3405 saying H559
(H8800) men H582 come H935 ...
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‘ And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, there came
men in here tonight of the children of Israel, to search out the
land.”
Someone, possibly one of the ‘guests' made suspicious by thei...
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Joshua 2:1.
Spies are a part of the unhappy machinery of war. They are counted as
necessary as the general, or as the boy who blows the bugle. It is
with an army and in a war that Joshua is now to dis...
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CONTENTS: Rahab and the Jericho spies.
CHARACTERS: Joshua, two spies, Rahab, king of Jericho.
CONCLUSION: Let not God's people be afraid of their most powerful
enemies, for their God can, when He pl...
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Joshua 2:1. _Sent out two spies._ Many read, “Joshua had sent
out.” Being a wary general he would lose no time in gaining every
kind of information. _A harlot's house, named Rahab._ The word is
render...
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_Joshua _. .. _ sent out _. .. _ two men to spy._
THE SPIES DESPATCHED
I. The position in which joshua and the Israelites were placed. It was
a difficult task that had been performed by Moses; did no...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 2:2 IT WAS TOLD TO THE KING OF JERICHO. Canaan
was made up of various city-states. Each had a central city surrounded
by villages and farmland and its own “king.” Many of the cit...
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_THE MISSION OF THE TWO SPIES_
CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 2:1. Joshua sent] Or, as in the margin, had sent. It is
probable that the spies had left the camp for Jericho one or two days
before the giving...
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EXPOSITION
RAHAB AND THE SPIES.—
JOSHUA 2:1
AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN SENT. Rather, as margin, _had_ sent (see
note on Joshua 1:2). It might have been at the very time when the
command was given
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Now chapter two, Joshua sent out two men to spy out the land, actually
to spy out Jericho, because Jericho was the first city that they were
going to come to. Jericho is one of the oldest cities in th...
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Daniel 4:35; Isaiah 43:13; Proverbs 21:30; Psalms 127:1...
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PREPARING TO POSSESS THE LAND
Joshua 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The men who fell by the way. The closing verses of Joshua 1:1, give
the story of Joshua's preparations to carry out God's instructions,...
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To night — This evening....