Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Joshua 2:6
Roof — Which was flat after their manner. Upon the roof — That they might be dried by the heat of the sun.
Roof — Which was flat after their manner. Upon the roof — That they might be dried by the heat of the sun.
Verse Joshua 2:6. _HID THEN WITH THE STALKS OF FLAX_] It is a matter of little consequence whether we translate פסתי העיץ _pistey haets_ _stalks of flax_, or stalks of hemp: the word עץ _ets_, which...
STALKS OF FLAX - literally, “the carded fibres of the tree.” The flax in Palestine grew to more than three feet in height, with a stalk as thick as a cane. It was probably with the flax stalks, recent...
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...
STALKS OF FLAX. Hebrew. flax of stalks. Figure of speech _Hypallage,_ App-6. Flax now ripe: just before the Passover. Compare Exodus 9:31 with Joshua 4:19; Joshua 5:10....
_the roof of the house_ The roofs of Eastern houses were flat (St Mark 2:4), and were made useful for various purposes, as drying corn, hanging up linen, and preparing figs and raisins. They were also...
_VER._ 6. _BUT SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE_— We have elsewhere remarked in what manner the roofs of houses in this country were constructed. See Deuteronomy 22:8. They were flat,...
_Rahab Hides the Spies Joshua 2:1-7_ And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named...
_BUT SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE, AND HID THEM WITH THE STALKS OF FLAX, WHICH SHE HAD LAID IN ORDER UPON THE ROOF._ She had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them...
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...
SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM, etc.] Then, as now, the flat roofs of Eastern houses were used for such purposes as drying flax stalks. The flax would be ripe (cp. Exodus 9:31) shortly before wheat harvest....
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 STALKS OF FLAX. — It is remarked that flax and barley are both early crops (Exodus 9:31), and that the first month (see Joshua 4:19) was the time of barley harvest. (Comp. 2 Samuel 21:9.)...
וְ הִ֖יא הֶעֱלָ֣תַם הַ גָּ֑גָה וַֽ תִּטְמְנֵם
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...
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...
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...
But she had brought them up to the (c) roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. (c) Meaning, on the house: for then their houses were flat a...
_There. The roofs were flat in that country, and consequently very proper to dry flax, or "cotton," as Masius understands._...
The apostle James had it in commission from the Holy Ghost, to tell the church, that the harlot Rahab was justified by works, but then it was, as he observed, the works of faith: meaning that her beli...
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...
BUT SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE,.... Before the messengers came; though Abarbinel thinks it was after they were gone, when she took them from the place of their concealment, and h...
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. Ver. 6. _But she had brought them up to the roof of the house._]...
_Up to the roof_ In those countries the roofs of the houses were made quite flat, and it is probable it might be customary to lay the stalks of flax upon them that they might be dried by the heat of t...
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...
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, those of the Orient being flat and usually parapeted, AND HID THEM WITH THE STALKS OF FLAX, unbroken lengths spread out there for the purpose of d...
The Spies at Rahab's House...
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:...
1-7 Faith in God's promises ought not to do away, but to encourage our diligence in the use of proper means. The providence of God directed the spies to the house of Rahab. God knew where there was o...
UP TO THE ROOF, which was plain, after the manner. See DEUTERONOMY 22:8 MATTHEW 10:27 MARK 2:4 ACTS 10:9. Laid in order upon the roof, that they may
Joshua 2:6 up H5927 (H8689) roof H1406 hidden H2934 (H8799) stalks H6086 flax H6593 order H6186 ...
‘ And she brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.' Compare 2 Samuel 17:19. The word for ‘hid' is different from Joshua 2:4. It may be...
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...
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 2:6 FLAX is the plant from which linen is made. The flat rooftops of houses were convenient places for drying the stalks. ⇐...
_THE MISSION OF THE TWO SPIES_ CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 2:1. Joshua sent] Or, as in the margin, had sent. It is probable that the spies had left the camp for Jericho one or two days before the giving...
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
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 Kings 18:13; 1 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 11:2; 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel
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,...