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Verse Joshua 2:3. _THE KING OF JERICHO SENT UNTO RAHAB_] This appears
to be a proof of the preceding opinion: had she been a _prostitute_ or
a person of _ill fame_ he could at once have sent officers...
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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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ALL. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, omit "all"....
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_sent unto Rahab_ "In modern Europe the officers of the government
would have entered the house without wasting the previous time in
parley. But formerly, as now, in the East, the privacy of a woman w...
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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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_AND THE KING OF JERICHO SENT UNTO RAHAB, SAYING, BRING FORTH THE MEN
THAT ARE COME TO THEE, WHICH ARE ENTERED INTO THINE HOUSE: FOR THEY BE
COME TO SEARCH OUT ALL THE COUNTRY._
No JFB commentary on...
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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 יִּשְׁלַח֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְרִיחֹ֔ו אֶל
־רָחָ֖ב ל
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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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And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, (b) Bring forth the
men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for
they be come to search out all the country.
(b) Though the wick...
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_House. She spoke to them through a window. The messengers did not
enter into her house; whence Serarius infers, that Rahab was a person
consecrated to some impure deity, and therefore held in some
es...
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The history of this woman forms so interesting a subject in the
gospel, that we cannot be too particular in attending to all the
circumstances the Holy Ghost hath been pleased to give us concerning
it...
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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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AND THE KING OF JERICHO SENT UNTO RAHAB,.... Not merely because she
kept a public house, or being a prostitute had often strangers in it,
and so conjectured that the men he had notice of might be ther...
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_And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men
that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be
come to search out all the country._
Ver. 3. _For they be...
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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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And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men
that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house; for they be
come to search out all the country. The king's messengers di...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Joshua 2:3 king H4428 Jericho H3405 sent H7971 (H8799) Rahab H7343
saying H559 (H8800) out H3318 ...
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‘ And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the
men who have come to you, which have entered your house, for they are
come to search out the whole land.” '
The king, a petty kinglet o...
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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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_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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1 Chronicles 19:3; 2 Samuel 10:3; Acts 12:4; Acts 12:6; Genesis 38:24;
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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,...