And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Rahab, [Septuagint, Raab (G4460)].
... dwelleth in Israel unto this day - a proof not only that the pledge given for her preservation had been fully redeemed, but also that this book was written not long after the events related.
Verse Joshua 6:25. _AND SHE DWELLETH IN ISRAEL_ EVEN _UNTO THIS DAY_] This is one proof that the book was written _in the time_ to which it is commonly referred; and certainly might have been done by...
EVEN UNTO THIS DAY - These words are rightly noted as implying that the narrative was written not long after the occurrences which it records....
6. THE FALL OF JERICHO CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The divine instruction (Joshua 6:1)_ 2. The instructions followed (Joshua 6:6) 3. The fall of Jericho (Joshua 6:20) 4. Rahab remembered ...
JOSHUA 5:13 TO JOSHUA 6:27. THE CAPTURE OF JERICHO. The narrative begins at Joshua 5:13; Joshua 6:1 is an insertion (observe that RV places it in brackets), so that
RAHAB. Compare Matthew 1:4. Married to Salmon, in the line of the Messiah. IN. in the midst of. UNTO THIS DAY. Written therefore during her life...
The Rescue of Rahab 22. _Go into the harlot's house_ We are told that Rahab's house was _upon the town wall_, and that she dwelt _upon the wall_. But though the walls of Jericho fell down flat, her h...
_she dwelleth in Israel_ These words do not _necessarily_imply that she was alive at the time the Book of Joshua was written, but that the family of strangers, of which she was reckoned the head, cont...
_VER._ 25. _AND SHE DWELLETH IN ISRAEL EVEN UNTO THIS DAY_— Rahab, incorporated with the people of God, was still living there when this was written. See ch. Joshua 4:9. Her family, doubtless, were in...
_The Sparing of Rahab Joshua 6:22-27_ 22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye s...
THE CAPTURE OF JERICH This chapter describes the first and perhaps MOST decisive _action in_ the war. The impression it produced (Joshua 6:27) no doubt did much to decide the fortunes of subsequent ca...
SHE DWELLETH IN ISRAEL _even_ UNTO THIS DAY] Unless Rahab's descendants are meant, this must be the touch of a contemporary chronicler (cp. Joshua 5:1 and Joshua 6:26). On Rahab and her incorporation...
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 6 V1 The people in Jericho kept their gate...
AND JOSHUA SAVED RAHAB THE HARLOT ALIVE. — “By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not” (Hebrews 11:31). And so Jesus said to her who had ministered to Him in the house of Simo...
וְֽ אֶת ־רָחָ֣ב הַ֠ זֹּונָה וְ אֶת
Joshua 6:22 CHAPTER XIII. RAHAB SAVED. Joshua 6:17; Joshua 6:22. It has not been the lot of Rahab to share the devout interest which has been lavished on Mary Magdalene. Our Correggios, Titians, an...
CHAPTER XII. THE FATE OF JERICHO. Joshua 6:8. THE instructions of Joshua to the priests and the people are promptly obeyed. In the bright rays of the morning sun, on the day when Jericho is to be su...
SPARED WHEN OTHERS PERISHED Joshua 6:22 It is not the amount of truth that we know which saves us, but the grasp with which we hold it. All that Rahab knew was very slight and partial, but she held t...
All the preparation being completed, the hosts of God moved forward as the scourge of God in judgment on the corrupt peoples of the land. It is impossible to imagine anything more calculated to impres...
WHEN GOD BROUGHT DOWN THE WALLS Joshua 6:1-27 When Joshua met the captain of the host of the Lord in chapter 5, he asked him, "What does my Lord say to his servant?" He first told Joshua to take off...
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she (p) dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy...
_Day. Rahab prefigured the wild olive tree, which St. Paul says was engrafted on the good olive tree, (Romans xi. 24,) and which will remain till the end of the world. (Theodoret, q. 8.) She married S...
I have brought these verses together into one point of view, because they present to the Reader in one and the same moment what the apostle saith: Behold the goodness and severity of God. Romans 11:22...
The passing of the Jordan was a wondrous and significant event; but it was not everything. It sank deep into the consciences of the Canaanites on all sides; but there was more that was needed, and mor...
In chapter 6 we find the principles on which the conquests of Israel are founded. The work is altogether God's. He may indeed exercise His people in conflict, but it is He who does all. "They went up...
AND JOSHUA SAVED RAHAB THE HARLOT ALIVE,.... From perishing by the sword, as the rest of the inhabitants did. Kimchi says, some interpret it of his giving her food, and an inheritance by which she mig...
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out...
_The harlot's house_ Which, together with the wall upon which it leaned, was left standing, by a special favour of God to her. _Left them without the camp of Israel_ Till they were cleansed from the i...
1 Iericho is shut vp. 2 God instructeth Ioshua how to besiege it. 12 The citie is compassed. 17 It must be accursed. 20 The walles fall downe. 22 Rahab is saued. 26 The builder of Iericho is cur...
And Joshua saved Rahab, the harlot, alive, and her fathers household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day, being alive and considered a member of the people of the Lord...
RAHAB SAVED AT THE OVERTHROW OF JERICHO...
JERICHO DESTROYED Joshua and Israel having been fully prepared by God, their conquest of Canaan begins. Jericho, with its thick walls, was securely shut up (v.1), prepared for a long siege; but certa...
17-27 Jericho was to be a solemn and awful sacrifice to the justice of God, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So He appoints, from whom, as creatures, they received their lives,...
For that general command of rooting out the Canaanites seems to have had some exception, in case any of them had sincerely and seasonably cast off their idolatry and wickedness, and submitted themselv...
Joshua 6:25 Joshua H3091 spared H2421 (H8689) Rahab H7343 harlot H2181 (H8802) fathers H1 household H1004 dwells...
‘ And Joshua saved alive Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and all she had, and she dwelt in the midst of Israel even to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to sp...
CONTENTS: Conquest of Jericho. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, priests, Rahab, 2 spies. CONCLUSION: The victories of faith are often to be won by means, and upon principles utterly foolish and inadequate i...
Joshua 6:4. _Seven trumpets of rams' horns._ Josephus uses this term, “rams' horns:” but in most versions it is holy trumpets, or trumpets used in the Jubilee, as seems to be implied by the Hebrew wor...
_The wall fell down flat._ THE FIGHT OF FAITH Of uninspired poems, perhaps the most widely read are those which celebrate a siege--the siege of Troy. Homer and Virgil have sung in noble numbers the p...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 6:23. And left them without the camp] Till they had undergone ceremonial purification they would be regarded as unclean, and, as such, they were forbidden to come where the Lo...
EXPOSITION RAHAB'S DELIVERANCE. THE CURSE ON JERICHO.— JOSHUA 6:22 HAD SAID. Here we have an instance of the use of the perfect as a pluperfect. We can hardly suppose, as Keil observes, that Joshua...
So in chapter six we begin the conquering of the land. The method by which they took Jericho was very fascinating indeed. The Lord said to Joshua, I have given to you the city of Jericho, and its king...
Acts 2:21; Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25; Joshua 11:19; Joshua 11:20;...
The harlot olive — For that general command of rooting out the Canaanites seems to have had some exception, in case any of them had sincerely and seasonably cast off their wickedness, and submitted to...