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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Joshua 2:11

And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for (e) the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

(e) In this the great mercy of God appears, that in this common destruction he would draw a most miserable sinner to repent, and confess his Name.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 2:11. _HE_ IS _GOD IN HEAVEN ABOVE, AND TO EARTH BENEATH._] This confession of the true God is amazingly full, and argues considerable light and information. As if she had said, "I know...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD YOUR GOD, HE IS GOD - From the rumour of God’s miraculous interpositions Rahab believed, and makes the self-same confession to which Moses endeavors to bring Israel by rehearsing similar argu...

  • 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

    MELT. Compare Exodus 15:14; Exodus 15:15. Prophecy fulfilled. REMAIN. Hebrew. rise up. COURAGE. Hebrew. _ruach_, spirit. See App-9. ANY MAN. Hebrew. _ish_. See App-14, GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _he is God in heaven above_ Rahab expressly acknowledges God as Almighty, a knowledge which is possible to the heathen, for the "invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 244 RAHAB PROTECTS THE SPIES Joshua 2:8. And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof: and she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 11. _FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD, HE IS GOD,_ &C.— "Is a God whose power, far different from that of the idols, who only preside over certain places of which they are considered as the tutelar deitie...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND SHE SAID UNTO THE MEN, I KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH GIVEN YOU THE LAND, AND THAT YOUR TERROR IS FALLEN UPON US, AND THAT ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FAINT BECAUSE OF YOU._ 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (9-11) SHE SAID UNTO THE MEN, I KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH GIVEN YOU THE LAND.... — The words of this confession are memorable in everyway. Note the fulfilment of the prophetic song of Moses, which is pa...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ נִּשְׁמַע֙ וַ יִּמַּ֣ס לְבָבֵ֔נוּ וְ לֹא

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Beneath. This is the confession of a true convert, (Calmet) inspired by God. (Haydock) --- For St. Paul commends her faith. (Hebrews xi. 31.) (Menochius) --- The pagans confined the power of their id...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a wonder working God our God is! Jericho is one of the cities devoted to destruction: and yet in this place there is a precious soul to be gathered to his people! Compare Joshua 6:26 with 1 Kings...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._The Lord your God, he is God, _etc. Here the image of Rahab’s faith appears, as if reflected in a mirror, when casting down all idols she ascribes the government of heaven and earth to the God of...

  • 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 AS SOON AS WE HAD HEARD [THESE THINGS], OUR HEARTS DID MELT,.... Particularly what were done to the two kings of the Amorites, who, and their people, were utterly destroyed, their goods made a pre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth...

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

    _Before they were laid down_ To sleep, as they intended. _She came up unto them_ Having got clear of the officers, to the _roof of the house_, where they lay hid. Here she informs them, 1st, That the...

  • 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 as soon as we had heard these things, for Rahab here asserts of all her countrymen what she herself felt, OUR HEARTS DID MELT, said of complete discouragement, NEITHER DID THERE REMAIN ANY MORE CO...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SPIES SAVED BY RAHAB...

  • 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:...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    REMAIN: rose up...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DID MELT, i.e. were dissolved, lost all consistency and courage. This phrase is oft used, as Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 20:8 Joshua 5:1, Joshua 7:

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 2:11 heard H8085 (H8799) hearts H3824 melted H4549 (H8735) remain H6965 (H8804) courage H7307 anyone...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “ And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts melted, nor did there remain any more spirit in any man because of you, for YHWH your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.” The...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 2:11 AS SOON AS WE HEARD... OUR HEARTS MELTED. Compare Exodus 15:14. On Rahab’s apparent faith, see note on Josh. 2:9.

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 2:9. Your terror is fallen upon us] As Moses had predicted forty years before; Exodus 15:15. JOSHUA 2:12. GIVE ME A TRUE TOKEN] Rahab asks them to enter into solemn covenant w...

  • 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 Kings 8:60; Daniel 4:34; Daniel 4:35; Daniel 6:25; Deuteronomy 1:28

  • 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

    Melted — That is, were dissolved, lost all courage....

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