Gen 42:9, 16, 30-31, 34, Num 13:2, 16-20, Jos 2:1, 6:23, Judg 1:24, 1Sa 26:4 | TSK | STEP | remembered. Ye are spies.Persons who, under the pretence of wishing to buy corn, desire only to find out whether the land be so defenceless that the tribes to which you belong may attack it successfully, drive out the inhabitants, and settle themselves in it; or, having plundered it, retire into their deserts. This is a frequent custom among the Arabs to the present day. nakedness.

Genesis 42:9

remembered.

Ye are spies.Persons who, under the pretence of wishing to buy corn, desire only to find out whether the land be so defenceless that the tribes to which you belong may attack it successfully, drive out the inhabitants, and settle themselves in it; or, having plundered it, retire into their deserts. This is a frequent custom among the Arabs to the present day.

9,16,30,31,34; Nu 13:2,16-20; Jos 2:1; 6:23; Jud 1:24; 1Sa 26:4

Lu 20:20; Heb 11:31

nakedness.

Ex 32:35

Genesis 42:16

kept in prison. Heb. bound.

Genesis 42:30-31

roughly to us. Heb. with us hard things.

7-20

true.

Genesis 42:34

traffick.

34:10,21; 1Ki 10:15; Eze 17:4

Numbers 13:2

Send thou.

32:8; De 1:22-25; Jos 2:1-24

of every.

1:4; 34:18

a ruler.

11:16; Ex 18:25; De 1:15

Numbers 13:16-20

Oshea.

Ho 1:1; Ro 9:25

Jehoshua.

8; 14:6,30; Ex 17:9; Mt 1:21-23; Ac 7:45; Heb 4:8

Jesus.

southward.

21,22; Ge 12:9; 13:1; Jos 15:3; Jud 1:15

the mountain.

14:40; Ge 14:10; De 1:44; Jud 1:9,19

Ex 3:8; Eze 34:14

whether it be.

Ne 9:25,35; Eze 34:14

good courage.

30,31; De 31:6-8,23; Jos 1:6,9; 2:3,22,23; 1Ch 22:11; Heb 13:6

the firstripe.

23,24; Mic 7:1

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 6:23

out Rahab.

2:18; Ge 12:2; 18:24; 19:29; Ac 27:24; Heb 11:7

kindred. Heb. families. left them.

Nu 5:2,3; 31:19; Ac 10:28; 1Co 5:12; Eph 2:12

Judges 1:24

we will.

Jos 2:12-14; 1Sa 30:15

1 Samuel 26:4

Jos 2:1; Mt 10:16