"And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not."
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UNTO THE MOUNTAIN - Probably the mountains to the west and north of
Jericho, called afterward, from the belief that the 40 days of our
Lord’s temptation were passed among them, the Quarantania. The sp...
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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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Return of the Spies to Joshua
22. _the mountain_ See above, Joshua 2:16....
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_VER._ 22. &C. _AND THEY WENT,_ &C.— The risk they had run took from
them the desire of making fresh inquiries, which might have been as
dangerous as useless, having already received sufficient inform...
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_The Spies Return to Joshua 2:22-24_
22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three
days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them
throughout all the way, b...
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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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THREE DAYS — i.e., probably until the completion of three days from
the commencement of their mission, according to the usual inclusive
reckoning of the Old Testament....
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וַ יֵּלְכוּ֙ וַ יָּבֹ֣אוּ הָ הָ֔רָה וַ
יֵּ֤שְׁבוּ שָׁם֙ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֔ים
עַד ־שָׁ֖בוּ 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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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...
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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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When the spies returned from Jericho, they told Joshua all they had
learned on their secret mission. Through Rahab, God had told Joshua
the victory was assured because God was on their side. (Joshua
2...
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Reader! do not fail to discern Jesus as the hiding place of his
people, when both law and justice pursue them. The Psalmist took great
comfort in this view. And why may not you and I? When Jesus hides...
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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 THEY WENT, AND CAME UNTO THE MOUNTAIN,.... Rahab had directed them
to, the mountain Quarantania, Joshua 2:16;
AND ABODE THERE THREE DAYS; being, no doubt, supplied with food by
Rahab; and it migh...
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_Three days_ Supporting themselves there with the provisions which
Rahab had furnished them with. _The way_ That is, in the road to
Jordan, and the places near it, but not in the mountains. _Passed
ov...
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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...
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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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22-24 The report the spies brought was encouraging. All the people of
the country faint because of Israel; they have neither wisdom to
yield, nor courage to fight. Those terrors of conscience, and tha...
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ABODE THERE THREE DAYS; supporting themselves there with the
provisions, which after the manner of those times and places they
carried with them, which Rahab furnished them with. THROUGHOUT ALL THE
WA...
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Joshua 2:22 departed H3212 (H8799) went H935 (H8799) mountain H2022
stayed H3427 (H8799) three H7969 days H3117 pursuers H7291 (H8802)
returned H7725 (H8804) pursuers H7291 (H8802) sought H1245 (H8762...
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‘ And they went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three
days until the pursuers were returned, and the pursuers sought them in
every part of the way, but did not find them.'
The mountain wa...
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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 2:22. Abode there three days] One clear day, and part of two
others. The spies were probably sent out on the sixth of Abib; on the
evening of the same day as that on which the...
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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 Genesi...
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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 Samuel 19:10; 2 Samuel 17:20; Psalms 32:6; Psalms 32:7...
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Three days — Supporting themselves there with the provisions, which
Rahab had furnished them with. The ways — That is, in the road to
Jordan, and the places near it, but not in the mountains....