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Verse Joshua 2:18. _THIS LINE OF SCARLET THREAD_] תקות חוט
השני _tikvath_ _chut hashshani_. Probably this may mean, _this
piece of scarlet_ _cloth_, or, _this cloth_ (made) _of scarlet
thread_. When...
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The “line” or cord was spun of threads dyed with cochineal: i. e.,
of a deep and bright scarlet color. The color would catch the eye at
once, and supplied an obvious token by which the house of Rahab...
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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 Asterismos. App-6.
LINE. Hebrew "hope", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct),
App-6, for the line which was the token of it.
BY. through: referring to the window....
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_this line of scarlet thread_ The line was spun out of crimson thread,
the crimson colour produced by the _coccus ilicis_, Linn., a cochineal
insect, living on the holm oak, the larvæ of which yield t...
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Reception of the Spies by Rahab
9. _the Lord_ The name is remarkable as used by Rahab. But the
Israelites had long been encamped in the neighbourhood, and she might
easily have become acquainted with...
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_VER._ 17-20. _AND THE MEN SAID UNTO HER,_ &C.— Before they left her
house, they had answered her request with respect to her security; as
they not only engaged themselves to perform it, but also sett...
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_The Covenant Made With Rahab Joshua 2:8-21_
8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
9 And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the
land, and that...
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_AND THE MEN SAID UNTO HER, WE WILL BE BLAMELESS OF THIS THINE OATH
WHICH THOU HAST MADE US SWEAR._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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THE WINDOW WHICH THOU DIDST LET US DOWN BY. — It seems almost
needless to observe that the scarlet line and the cord by which the
men were lowered are not the same thing, but described by different
wo...
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הִנֵּ֛ה אֲנַ֥חְנוּ בָאִ֖ים בָּ †
אָ֑רֶץ אֶת...
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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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THE ESCAPE AND REPORT OF THE SPIES
Joshua 2:15
_ Rahab's_ trust in the promise of the spies, and in the efficacy of
the scarlet line around her window is a striking type of the faith
that relies on t...
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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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CHAPTER II.
Ver 1. Sent, or as many translate, "had sent," as if Josue had
dismissed the spies immediately after the mourning of Moses was ended,
(Calmet) on the 1st of Nisan. On the second day they e...
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I pass over all the several particulars of the agreement between Rahab
and the spies, to call the Reader's attention to the interesting
circumstances to which Rahab was enjoined by the spies, as signa...
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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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BEHOLD, [WHEN] WE COME INTO THE LAND,.... The land of Canaan, and into
this city, into that part of it, as the Septuagint, where her house
was, meaning not themselves only, but the people of Israel th...
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Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of
scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou
shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and...
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Jos. 2:18, 19. Faith is made the condition of Rahab's kindred, as well
as her own. They were to retire to Rahab's house, and not stir out,
which they would not have done unless they had believed that...
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_When we come into the land_ That is, over Jordan, and near the city.
_This line of scarlet_ The Hebrew word, תקות, _tickvath_, more
properly means, _rope, riband_, or _web._ Probably the same with wh...
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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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Behold, when we come into the land, thou shall bind this line of
scarlet thread, a thin, but strong rope, such as surveyors used,
probably the one by which they had made their escape, IN THE WINDOW
WH...
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THE SPIES SAVED BY RAHAB...
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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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BRING:
_ Heb._ gather...
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8-21 Rahab had heard of the miracles the Lord wrought for Israel. She
believed that his promises would certainly be fulfilled, and his
threatenings take effect; and that there was no way of escape bu...
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INTO THE LAND, i.e. over Jordan, and near the city. BIND THIS LINE OF
SCARLET THREAD IN THE WINDOW, that it may be easily discerned by our
soldiers....
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“ Behold, when we come into the land, you will bind this line of
scarlet cord in the window which you let us down by, and you will
gather into your house your father, and your mother, and your
brother...
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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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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 2:14. Our life for yours] The sentiment is, “If we fail to
regard your lives as sacred, may God so fail to think of ours.” It
became afterwards a common form of oath in Israel....
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EXPOSITION
THE OATH OF THE SPIES.—
JOSHUA 2:12
KINDNESS. The original is perhaps a little stronger, and involves
usually the idea of mercy and pity. This, however, is not always the
ease (see...
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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 Timothy 1:16; Acts 10:27; Acts 10:33; Acts 11:14; Esther 8:6;...
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Into the land — That is, over Jordan, and near the city. This line
of scarlet — Probably the same with which she was about to let them
down. Window — That it may be easily discerned by our soldiers....