How earnest are the feelings of natural affection! Are we not taught by this instance to be very anxious for the everlasting welfare of our relations after the flesh, and to feel somewhat of Abraham ' s longing for the salvation of Ishmael. Genesis 17:18.
Verse Joshua 2:13. _DELIVER OUR LIVES FROM DEATH._] She had learned, either from the spies or otherwise, that all the inhabitants of the land were doomed to destruction, and therefore she obliges them...
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...
LIVES. Hebrew "souls". See App-13....
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...
DISCOURSE: 244 RAHAB PROTECTS THE SPIES Joshua 2:8. And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof: and she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and th...
_VER._ 13. _THAT YE WILL SAVE ALIVE MY FATHER,_ &C.— We here see what Rahab means in the foregoing verse by her _father's house;_—namely, his family: her enumeration of which demonstrates that she had...
_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 SHE SAID UNTO THE MEN, I KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH GIVEN YOU THE LAND, AND THAT YOUR TERROR IS FALLEN UPON US, AND THAT ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FAINT BECAUSE OF YOU._ No JFB commentary on...
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...
SAVE ALIVE MY FATHER, AND MY MOTHER, AND MY BRETHREN, AND MY SISTERS. — Whatever Rahab may have been herself, her acknowledgment of all her family is observable. She was in no way separated or degrade...
וְ הַחֲיִתֶ֞ם אֶת ־אָבִ֣י וְ אֶת ־אִמִּ֗י
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...
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 [THAT] YE WILL SAVE ALIVE MY FATHER, AND MY MOTHER, AND MY BRETHREN, AND MY SISTERS,.... She makes no mention of any husband or children she had, as harlots seldom have, and which seems to confirm...
And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. Ver. 13. _And that ye will save alive._] Man is ζωον...
_Swear unto me by the Lord_ Hebrew, by _Jehovah_, your God, who is the only true God: so she owns his worship, one eminent act whereof is, swearing by his name. _My father's house_ My near kindred, 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...
and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, her entire relationship, AND DELIVER OUR LIVES FROM DEATH. The sign of truth which she de...
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:...
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...
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Joshua 2:13 spare H2421 (H8689) father H1 mother H517 brothers H251 sisters H269 deliver H5337 (H8689) lives...
“ Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by YHWH, since I have dealt faithfully with you, that you also will deal faithfully with my father's house, and give me a true token, and that you will save al...
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 2:12 WE WILL DEAL KINDLY AND FAITHFULLY WITH YOU. The spies’ response reflects the gracious character of Israel’s God. The distinction between Israel and Canaan was not based on...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 2:9. Your terror is fallen upon us] As Moses had predicted forty years before; Exodus 15:15. JOSHUA 2:12. GIVE ME A TRUE TOKEN] Rahab asks them to enter into solemn covenant w...
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...
Joshua 2:13...
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,...
All that they have — That is, their children, as appears from Joshua 6:23....