Jos 2:1, 3:16, 6:1, 16:1 | TSK | STEP | Rahab receives and conceals the two spies sent from Shittim. The covenant between her and them. Their return and relation. sent. or, had sent. Shittim. to spy secretly. even Jericho. 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 [porné,] by which the LXX. render it, and which is adopted by the Apostles, is derived from [pernaó,] 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. Rachab. lodged. Heb. lay.

Joshua 2:1

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

8 The covenant between her and them.

23 Their return and relation.

sent. or, had sent. Shittim.

Nu 25:1; 33:49

to spy secretly.

Nu 13:2,17-21; Jud 18:2,14,17; Mt 10:16; Eph 5:5

even Jericho.

5:10; 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 [porné,] by which the LXX. render it, and which is adopted by the Apostles, is derived from [pernaó,] 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.

6:17,25; Mt 1:5

Rachab.

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

lodged. Heb. lay.

Joshua 3:16

rose up.

13; Ps 29:10; 77:19; 114:3; Mt 8:26,27; 14:24-33

Zaretan.

1Ki 4:12

Zartanah.

1Ki 7:46

Zarthan. the salt sea.

15:2; Ge 14:3; Nu 34:3; De 3:17The passage through the Red Sea took place in the night, when the Israelites were fleeing from the Egyptians with great trepidation: but they passed Jordan in the day-time, with previous warning, leisurely, directly opposite to Jericho, and with a triumphant defiance of the Canaanites; this passage into the promised land evidently typifying the believer's passage through death to heaven.

Joshua 6:1

1 Jericho is shut up.

2 God instructs Joshua how to beseige it.

12 The city is compassed.

17 It must be accursed.

20 The walls fall down.

22 Rahab is saved.

26 The builder of Jericho is cursed.

was straitly. Heb. did shut up, and was shut up.

2:7; 2Ki 17:4

because.

2:9-14,24; Ps 127:1

Joshua 16:1

1 The general borders of the sons of Joseph.

5 The border of the inheritance of Ephraim.

10 The Canaanites of Gezer not conquered.

fell. Heb. went forth. the water.

8:15; 15:61; 18:12; 2Ki 2:19-21