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 way, i.e. in the road to Jordan, and the places near it, but not in the mountains.
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...
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...
Return of the Spies to Joshua 22. _the mountain_ See above, Joshua 2:16....
_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...
_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, bu...
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...
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....
וַ יֵּלְכוּ֙ וַ יָּבֹ֣אוּ הָ הָ֔רָה וַ
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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, on every road which they could possibly hav...
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:...
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...
Joshua 2:22 departed H3212 (H8799) went H935 (H8799) mountain H2022 stayed H3427 (H8799) three H7969 days...
‘ 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...
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 2:22. 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 they...
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...
1 Samuel 19:10; 2 Samuel 17:20; Psalms 32:6; Psalms 32:7...
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....