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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Joshua 2:3

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 to have seized the persons lodged with her as vagabonds; but if she kept a house of entertainment, the persons under her roof were sacred, according to the universal custom of the Asiatics, and could not be molested on any trifling grounds. A guest or a friend is sacred in whatever house he may be received, in every part of the east to the present day.

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See also Joshua 2:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALL. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, omit "all"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 2 JOSHUA SENDS TWO MEN TO LOOK OVER THE LAN...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּשְׁלַח֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְרִיחֹ֔ו אֶל ־רָחָ֖ב ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Spies at Rahab's House...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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:...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 2:3 king H4428 Jericho H3405 sent H7971 (H8799) Rahab H7343 saying H559 (H8800) out H3318 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 19:3; 2 Samuel 10:3; Acts 12:4; Acts 12:6; Genesis 38:24;

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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,...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Probably Israel had but one friend in all Jericho: and God directed them to her! Thus what seems to be most accidental, is often over — ruled, to serve the great ends of providence. And those that ack...

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