Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Joshua 2:18
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
_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...
_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...
_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....
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...
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...
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...
הִנֵּ֛ה אֲנַ֥חְנוּ בָאִ֖ים בָּ † אָ֑רֶץ אֶת...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
THE SPIES SAVED BY RAHAB...
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:...
BRING: _ Heb._ gather...
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...
Joshua 2:18 come H935 (H8802) land H776 bind H7194 (H8799) line H8615 scarlet H8144 cord H2339 window...
“ 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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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...
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...
2 Timothy 1:16; Acts 10:27; Acts 10:33; Acts 11:14; Esther 8:6;...
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....