Josh 2:1

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Josh 2:1 Rahab receives and conceals the two spies sent from Shittim.

Josh 2:8 The covenant between her and them.

Josh 2:23 Their return and relation.

sent. or, had sent. Shittim.

Num 25:1; Num 33:49

to spy secretly.

Num 13:2; Num 13:17-21; Judg 18:2; Judg 18:14; Judg 18:17; Matt 10:16; Eph 5:5

even Jericho.

Josh 5:10; Josh 6:1-24

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 St. Chrysostome, in his second sermon on Repentance, calls her [pandokeutria.]

The Greek [porn�] by which the LXX. render it, and which is adopted by the Apostles, is derived from [perna�] 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.

Josh 6:17; Josh 6:25; Matt 1:5

Rachab.

Josh 21:31; Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25

lodged. Heb. lay.