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Verse Joshua 2:4. _AND HID THEM_] Probably she secreted them for the
time being in some private corner, till she had the opportunity of
concealing them on the house-top in the manner mentioned Joshua...
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I WIST NOT WHENCE THEY WERE - Rahab acted as she did from the belief
in God’s declared word, and conviction that resistance to His will
would be both vain and wicked Joshua 2:9. Thus, she manifested a...
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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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WIST NOT. Anglo-Saxon for "knew not". It is _this record_ that is
inspired, not the act and words of Rahab....
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_And the woman took the two men_ Instead of timidly surrendering them
to the king she resolved to shield and protect them.
_I wist not_ For this meaning of "wist," comp. Exodus 16:15, "And they
said o...
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_VER._ 4. _AND THE WOMAN TOOK THE TWO MEN, AND HID THEM_— Or rather,
as some versions have it, _Now the woman had taken the two men, and
had hidden them;_ having, without doubt, perceived the king's o...
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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 WOMAN TOOK THE TWO MEN, AND HID THEM, AND SAID THUS, THERE
CAME MEN UNTO ME, BUT I WIST NOT WHENCE THEY WERE:_
The woman took the two men and hid them - literally, him; i:e., each
of them in...
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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 תִּקַּ֧ח הָֽ אִשָּׁ֛ה אֶת ־שְׁנֵ֥י
הָ
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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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Hid, or "had hidden," as (ver. 6,) she had made the men retire before
she spoke to the messengers, and probably before they came to demand
them. As soon as she was informed of their design, she took a...
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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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4._And the woman took the two men, _etc. We may presume that before
Rahab was ordered to bring them forth the rumor of their arrival had
been spread, and that thus some little time had been given for...
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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 WOMAN TOOK THE TWO MEN,.... Or "she had taken" them z before
the messengers came, upon a rumour she understood was gone abroad,
that she had got Israelitish spies in her house, and so might ex...
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And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There
came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:
Ver. 4. _And the woman took the two men, and hid them._] This was an
act of her...
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_And the woman_ Or, _But the woman; had taken and hid them _ Before
the messengers came from the king; as soon as she understood from her
neighbours that there was a suspicion of the matter, and guess...
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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 woman took the two men and hid them, just as soon as the
servant in charge of the door had informed her of the identity of the
callers, whereupon she appeared at the door in person, AND SAID T...
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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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Or, _But the woman had taken and had hid them_, to wit, before the
messengers came from the king; as soon as she understood from her
neighbours, or common rumour, that there was a suspicion of the
mat...
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Joshua 2:4 woman H802 took H3947 (H8799) two H8147 men H582 hid H6845
(H8799) said H559 (H87
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Joshua 2:4 A
‘And the woman took the two men, and hid them.'
We should probably read these as pluperfects, ‘had taken the two men
and had hidden them'. (Hebrew is only interested in the fact that the...
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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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2 Kings 6:19; 2 Samuel 16:18; 2 Samuel 16:19; 2 Samuel 17:19;...
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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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And the woman — Or, But the woman had taken — and had hid them,
before the messengers came from the king; as soon as she understood
from her neighbours, that there was a suspicion of the matter, and
g...
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How could God bless Rahab for lying?
PROBLEM: When the spies came to Jericho, they sought refuge in the
house of Rahab. When the king of Jericho commanded Rahab to bring out
the men, she lied saying...