Joshua 2:10-11

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 2:11

“ And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts melted, nor did there remain any more spirit in any man because of you, for YHWH your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.” The name of YHWH had become a terror in the ears of the Canaanites, as One God Who acted in both heaven and earth (Deuteronomy 4:39; Deuteronomy 3:24), and thus closer and more personally active and wider ranging than their own gods, One Whose activities could be seen in what He did, defeating other... 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 2:11

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

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 2:8-13

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

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

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Joshua 2:8-14

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

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