And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
sent. or, had sent
Shittim
Numbers 25:1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit prostitution …
Numbers 33:49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even to Abelshittim …
to spy secretly
Numbers 13:2,17-21 Send you men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give …
Joshua 18:2,14,17 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which …
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
Ephesians 5:5 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous …
even Jericho
Joshua 5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover …
Joshua 6:1-24 Now Jericho was straightly shut up because of the children of Israel: …
harlot's house Though the word {zonah} generally denotes a prostitute, yet many very learned men are of opinion that it should be here rendered an {innkeeper} or {hostess}, from {zoon} to furnish or provide food. In this sense it was understood by the Targumist, who renders it, {ittetha pundekeetha, `a woman, a tavern-keeper}, and so Chrysostome, in his second sermon on Repentance, calls her (). The Greek () by which the LXX. render it, and which is adopted by the Apostles, is derived from () to sell, and is also supposed to denote a tavern keeper. Among the ancients, women generally kept houses of entertainment. Herodotus says, `Among the Egyptians, the women carry on all commercial concerns, and keep taverns, while the men continue at home and weave.' The same custom prevailed among the Greeks.
Joshua 6:17,25 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, …
Matthew 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and …
Rachab
Joshua 21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
Hebrews 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, …
James 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she …
lodged [heb] lay
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.
Bring
Joshua 10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of …
Genesis 38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, …
Leviticus 24:14 Bring forth him that has cursed without the camp; and let all that …
Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall …
John 19:4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and said to them, Behold, I bring …
Acts 12:4,6 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered …
to search
Genesis 42:9-12,31 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said …
2 Samuel 10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, …
1 Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you …
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
to the roof
Joshua 2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;
Exodus 1:15-21 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the …
Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for …
2 Samuel 11:2 And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his …
Matthew 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing …
hid them
Exodus 2:2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son: and when she saw him that …
2 Samuel 17:19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and …
1 Kings 18:4,13 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that …
2 Kings 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took …
Jeremiah 36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah …
Colossians 3:3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, …
And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
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.
I know
Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing …
2 Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, …
Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the …
Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, …
Hebrews 11:1,2 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things …
that the Lord
Genesis 13:14-17 And the LORD said to Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, …
Genesis 15:18-21 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your …
Exodus 3:6-8 Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, …
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when …
Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth has he …
Jeremiah 27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, …
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye …
your terror
Genesis 35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that …
Exodus 15:15,16 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling …
Exodus 23:27 I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to …
Deuteronomy 2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you …
Deuteronomy 11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you…
Deuteronomy 11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you…
Deuteronomy 28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the …
Judges 7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword …
1 Samuel 14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all …
2 Kings 7:6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of …
faint [heb] melt
Joshua 2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither …
1 Samuel 14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, …
2 Samuel 17:10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, …
Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his …
Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and …
Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees …
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 Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
our hearts
Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were …
Joshua 7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they …
Joshua 14:8 Nevertheless my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the …
Deuteronomy 1:28 Where shall we go up? our brothers have discouraged our heart, saying, …
Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall …
Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees …
did there remain [heb] rose up
Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from …
for the Lord
Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the …
1 Kings 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and …
Psalm 83:18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the …
Psalm 102:15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings …
Jeremiah 16:19-21 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of …
Daniel 4:34,35 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes to …
Daniel 6:25-27 Then king Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages, that …
Zechariah 8:20-23 Thus said the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there …
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
swear
Joshua 9:15,18-20 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to …
1 Samuel 20:14,15,17 And you shall not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the …
1 Samuel 30:15 And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And …
2 Chronicles 36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him …
Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways …
that ye will
1 Samuel 20:14-17 And you shall not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the …
1 Samuel 24:21,22 Swear now therefore to me by the LORD, that you will not cut off …
Esther 8:6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? …
2 Timothy 1:16-18 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
my father's
Joshua 2:13 And that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, …
Genesis 24:3,9 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the …
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, …
1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his …
give me
Joshua 2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet …
Exodus 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you …
Ezekiel 9:4-6 And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through …
Mark 14:44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever …
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.
my father It is observable that in this enumeration of her kindred, there is no mention made of a {husband}. It is most likely that she was a single woman or widow, who obtained an honest livelihood by keeping a house for the entertainment of strangers; and not a woman of ill fame, as some have supposed. The spies sent on this occasion were certainly some of the most confidential persons that Joshua had in his host, and their errand was of the greatest importance; is it then not most likely that they lodged at an inn?
And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
for your's [heb] instead of you to die
1 Kings 20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king: and he said, Your …
when the Lord
Joshua 6:17,25 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, …
Genesis 24:49 And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: …
Numbers 10:29-32 And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' …
Judges 1:24,25 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said …
1 Samuel 20:8 Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought …
2 Samuel 9:1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, …
Proverbs 18:24 A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a …
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
Joshua 2:20 And if you utter this our business, then we will be quit of your …
Genesis 24:3-8 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the …
Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the …
Leviticus 19:11,12 You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another…
Numbers 30:2 If a man vow a vow to the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul …
2 Samuel 21:1,2,7 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after …
Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
scarlet thread
Joshua 2:21 And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she sent them …
Leviticus 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed …
Numbers 4:8 And they shall spread on them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same …
Numbers 19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and …
Hebrews 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according …
bring [heb] gather
thy father
Joshua 2:13 And that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, …
Joshua 6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, …
Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; …
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and …
Genesis 19:12-17 And the men said to Lot, Have you here any besides? son in law, and …
Esther 8:6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? …
Luke 19:9 And Jesus said to him, This day is salvation come to this house, …
Acts 10:27,33 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together…
Acts 11:14 Who shall tell you words, whereby you and all your house shall be saved.
2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed …
And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
whosoever
Exodus 12:13,23 And the blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you …
Numbers 35:26-28 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the …
1 Kings 2:36-42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build you …
Matthew 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing …
Acts 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide …
Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of …
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, …
1 John 2:27,28 But the anointing which you have received of him stays in you, and …
street, his blood
Leviticus 20:8,11 And you shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you…
2 Samuel 1:16 And David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth …
2 Samuel 3:28,29 And afterward when David heard it, he said…
Ezekiel 33:4,5 Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and takes not warning; …
Matthew 27:24,25 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a …
Acts 18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, …
Acts 20:26 Why I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
house, his blood
Joshua 2:14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you utter not this …
2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his …
1 Kings 2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on …
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
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, but found them not.
So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:
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.
Truly the Lord
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you …
Joshua 21:44,45 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he …
Exodus 23:31 And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the …
Numbers 13:32,33 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched …
Proverbs 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger …
all the inhabitants
Joshua 2:9-11 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, …
Psalm 48:5,6 They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hurried away…
Revelation 6:16,17 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from …
faint [heb] melt
Joshua 2:9,11 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, …
Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were …
Exodus 15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling …
