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Verse Joshua 2:6. _HID THEN WITH THE STALKS OF FLAX_] It is a matter
of little consequence whether we translate פסתי העיץ _pistey
haets_ _stalks of flax_, or stalks of hemp: the word עץ _ets_, which...
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STALKS OF FLAX - literally, “the carded fibres of the tree.” The
flax in Palestine grew to more than three feet in height, with a stalk
as thick as a cane. It was probably with the flax stalks, recent...
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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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STALKS OF FLAX. Hebrew. flax of stalks. Figure of speech _Hypallage,_
App-6. Flax now ripe: just before the Passover. Compare Exodus 9:31
with Joshua 4:19; Joshua 5:10....
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_the roof of the house_ The roofs of Eastern houses were flat (St Mark
2:4), and were made useful for various purposes, as drying corn,
hanging up linen, and preparing figs and raisins. They were also...
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_VER._ 6. _BUT SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE_— We
have elsewhere remarked in what manner the roofs of houses in this
country were constructed. See Deuteronomy 22:8. They were flat,...
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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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_BUT SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE, AND HID THEM
WITH THE STALKS OF FLAX, WHICH SHE HAD LAID IN ORDER UPON THE ROOF._
She had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them...
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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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SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM, etc.] Then, as now, the flat roofs of Eastern
houses were used for such purposes as drying flax stalks. The flax
would be ripe (cp. Exodus 9:31) shortly before wheat harvest....
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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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THE STALKS OF FLAX. — It is remarked that flax and barley are both
early crops (Exodus 9:31), and that the first month (see Joshua 4:19)
was the time of barley harvest. (Comp. 2 Samuel 21:9.)...
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וְ הִ֖יא הֶעֱלָ֣תַם הַ גָּ֑גָה וַֽ
תִּטְמְנֵם
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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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But she had brought them up to the (c) roof of the house, and hid them
with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
(c) Meaning, on the house: for then their houses were flat a...
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_There. The roofs were flat in that country, and consequently very
proper to dry flax, or "cotton," as Masius understands._...
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The apostle James had it in commission from the Holy Ghost, to tell
the church, that the harlot Rahab was justified by works, but then it
was, as he observed, the works of faith: meaning that her beli...
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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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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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BUT SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE,.... Before the
messengers came; though Abarbinel thinks it was after they were gone,
when she took them from the place of their concealment, and h...
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But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them
with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
Ver. 6. _But she had brought them up to the roof of the house._]...
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_Up to the roof_ In those countries the roofs of the houses were made
quite flat, and it is probable it might be customary to lay the stalks
of flax upon them that they might be dried by the heat of t...
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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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But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, those of the
Orient being flat and usually parapeted, AND HID THEM WITH THE STALKS
OF FLAX, unbroken lengths spread out there for the purpose of d...
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The Spies at Rahab's House...
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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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UP TO THE ROOF, which was plain, after the manner. See DEUTERONOMY
22:8 MATTHEW 10:27 MARK 2:4 ACTS 10:9. Laid in order upon the roof,
that they may
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Joshua 2:6 up H5927 (H8689) roof H1406 hidden H2934 (H8799) stalks
H6086 flax H6593 order H6186 ...
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‘ And she brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks
of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.'
Compare 2 Samuel 17:19. The word for ‘hid' is different from Joshua
2:4. It may be...
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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 2:6 FLAX is the plant from which linen is
made. The flat rooftops of houses were convenient places for drying
the stalks.
⇐...
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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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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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Roof — Which was flat after their manner. Upon the roof — That
they might be dried by the heat of the sun....