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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 2:1-7

The Spies at Rahab's House v. 1. And Joshua, the son of Hun, sent out of Shittim, a town in Moabitis, where he had his headquarters, this probably having taken place even before the officers of the host made the proclamation throughout the camp, two men to spy secretly, this having reference both to the manner in which the command was given, and the form in which it was carried out, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho, both the city and its vicinity. Jericho was located in a beautiful and... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 2:1-24

2. The sending out of the spies to JerichoJoshua 2:0a. Sending of the Spies, and their Reception by RahabJoshua 2:1-71And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy [as spies] secretly, saying: Go, view the land, even [and] Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s lot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged [lay down] there. 2And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children [sons] of Israel, to search out the country [ארץ,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Joshua 2:1-14

a Heathen Woman’s Act of Faith Joshua 2:1-14 “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 Rahab’s mode of life nor her lies. Her morality was faulty enough, but beneath it, slowly smoldering, was a spark of pure love and faith, and this would consume the rubbish and burn clear, Hebrews 11:31 . The stalks of flax were probably laid out on the roof to dry. She believed, on the ground... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 2:1-24

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 recognition of the power of God. Now Joshua himself once more sent out spies. The whole story, however, reveals the principle of his sending was very different from that underlying the sending of the spies in the time of Moses. As we saw in considering the Book of Numbers, the occasion then was... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Joshua 2:1-17

Preparing to Possess the Land Joshua 2:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The men who fell by the way. The closing verses of Joshua 1:1-18 , give the story of Joshua's preparations to carry out God's instructions, and to enter in and possess the land. The men, who thirty-eight years before had come up to Kadesh-barnea, and who had refused to enter in, had all died with the exception of Caleb and Joshua. Those men whose carcasses fell, and whose bones were strewn across the wilderness, are also a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 2:4-5

Joshua 2:4 a ‘And the woman took the two men, and hid them.’ We should probably read these as pluperfects, ‘had taken the two men and had hidden them’. (Hebrew is only interested in the fact that the thing happened, not when it happened. It has no way of indicating the different past tenses). The sharp knock on the door, so unlike her usual visitors, probably alerted her to the situation with the result that she would have hid them out of sight before she opened the door. This was an... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 2:1-24

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 three days, for Joshua 2:22 tells us that the spies abode three days in the mountains; and with one day to go and another to return, five days at least would be required. This is an indication that Joshua 2 and Joshua 1 are from different sources. And perhaps Joshua 2 itself is composite. The... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 2:5

The time of shutting of the gate; either of her house, or rather of the city, which was shut at a certain time. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 2:1-7

THE MISSION OF THE TWO SPIESCRITICAL 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 of the two addresses by Joshua, which are recorded in chap. 1. Out of Shittim] Called in Numbers 33:49, Abel Shittim. The last camping-ground of the Israelites in connection with their nomadic life, and the scene of their sin with Moab. (Cf. Numbers 25:0.) Joshua 2:4. Hid them] “Heb. ‘hid him,’ i.e.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Joshua 2:1-18

Joshua 2:1-18 . 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 display Jehovah, and he must employ all the arts of the soldier. It would have gone hard with the two spies if they had not been so strangely housed. Rahab took her own life in her hands not to endanger theirs, She was artful, she was brave, she was noble, she was mean; she received them at her... read more