Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Joshua 2:24
The Lord hath delivered. — Observe the entirely satisfactory effect of this mission, and compare what was said on Joshua 2:1.
The Lord hath delivered. — Observe the entirely satisfactory effect of this mission, and compare what was said on Joshua 2:1.
Verse Joshua 2:24. _TRULY THE LORD HATH DELIVERED INTO OUR HANDS ALL THE_ _LAND_] How different was this report from that brought by the spies on a former occasion! They found that all the inhabitant...
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...
_all the inhabitants_ This was the most important part of their communication, that the inhabitants of the land were utterly dispirited and cast down....
Return of the Spies to Joshua 22. _the mountain_ See above, Joshua 2:16....
_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...
DO FAINT] RV here (and in Joshua 2:9 and Exodus 15:15) 'do melt away.'...
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...
וַ יֹּאמְרוּ֙ אֶל ־יְהֹושֻׁ֔עַ כִּֽי ־נָתַ֧ן...
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...
_Fear, as Rahab had testified. They might also have been witnesses of the people's consternation, which gave them the most assured hopes of victory, as the Lord had given this sign, among others, that...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over this chapter, and contemplate the several parts of it, and beg of God the Holy Ghost, who hath caused it to be written for thy instruction, to be thy teacher. Do not...
It is very sweet to exercise faith in God's promises, and to enjoy his mercies by anticipation. Reader! remember that is not faith which hath in possession: it is not to trust God when the promise is...
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...
24._And they said unto Joshua, _etc. This passage shows that Joshua was not mistaken in selecting his spies; for their language proves them to have been right-hearted men possessed of rare integrity....
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 SAID UNTO JOSHUA,.... Made a report of what they had got knowledge of, which answered the end of their mission: TRULY THE LORD HATH DELIVERED INTO OUR HANDS ALL THE LAND: which they conclude...
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...
THE SPIES SAVED BY RAHAB...
and they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. Rahab, the harlot, is an example of faith, Heb...
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:...
FAINT: _ Heb._ melt...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Joshua 2:24 said H559 (H8799) Joshua H3091 Truly H3588 LORD H3068 delivered H5414 (H8804) land H3027 hands...
‘ And they said to Joshua, “Certainly YHWH has delivered all the land into our hands, and moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.” ' Their report was confident. It had been demo...
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 2:24 The spies’ report echoes what Rahab herself said (v. Joshua 2:9). The good report of the two spies contrasts starkly with the bad report of the 10 spies 40 years earlier ...
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...
Exodus 15:15; Exodus 23:31; Joshua 1:8; Joshua 2:11; Joshua 2:9;...