Did melt, i.e. were dissolved, lost all consistency and courage. This phrase is oft used, as Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 20:8; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 7:5. He is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath; he can do whatsoever he pleaseth in heaven and earth; whereas our gods are enclosed in heaven, and can do nothing to us upon earth. read more
By the Lord; by your God, who is the only true God: so she shows her conversion to God, and owns his worship, one eminent act whereof is swearing by his name. My father’s house; my near kindred, which she particularly names, Joshua 2:13. Husband and children it seems she had none. And for herself; it was needless to speak, it being a plain and undeniable duty to save their preserver. A true token; either an assurance that you will preserve me and mine from the common ruin; or a token which I... read more
Our life for yours; we pawn and will venture our lives for the security of yours. Or, may we perish, if’ you be not preserved. This our business, i.e. this agreement of ours, and the way and condition of it, test others under this pretence secure themselves. By which they show both their piety and prudence in managing their oath with so much circumspection and caution, that neither their own consciences might be insnared, nor the public justice obstructed. read more
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
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 with her, and to establish something as the usual token or sign. The sign of the covenant in this case was the scarlet cord named in Joshua 2:18. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Joshua 2:8-13PHASES OF HUMAN FAITH AND DIVINE MERCYNotwithstanding the labours of such writers as Josephus, the Jewish... read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 2:14. Our life for yours] The sentiment is, “If we fail to regard your lives as sacred, may God so fail to think of ours.” It became afterwards a common form of oath in Israel. (Cf. Ruth 1:17; 1 Samuel 3:17; 1 Samuel 25:22; 1 Kings 19:2, etc.) Joshua 2:16. Get you to the mountain] “Probably the cavernous mountain to the north of Jericho, which the Arabs now call Kuruntul” (F. R. Fay). Joshua 2:18. This scarlet thread] This crimson cord. The dye is supposed to have been... read more
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
DISCOURSE: 244RAHAB PROTECTS THE SPIESJoshua 2:8-14. 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 that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and... read more
Chapter 2Now 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 the world. It was one of the first; it was the first city that they came to once they crossed the Jordan River.So these two spies came to Jericho, and they went into the house of a harlot's house, whose name was Rahab, and they had received them into her house ( Joshua 2:1 ).She shared with... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 2:9
Quest. How could they understand one the other? Answ. 1. The Hebrew and the Canaan or Phoenician languages have a very great resemblance, and are thought to be but differing dialects of one and the same tongue, as the learned prove by a multitude of words, which are common to both of them. Or, 2. Some of the Hebrews had either out of curiosity, or by Joshua’s order and direction, learnt that language for this or other such like occasions. Your terror, i.e. the dread of you. See Exodus 23:27;... read more