Gen 42:9-18, Jos 2:1-3, Judg 1:23-24, 18:2, 8-10 | 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 42:9-18

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

27:29,37; 37:8; 44:9; 1Sa 26:17; 1Ki 18:7

We are, etc.We do not belong to different tribes; and it is not likely that one family would make a hostile attempt upon a whole kingdom; nor, if any serious design had been intended, that one man would have sent his sons on so hazardous an expedition.

true men.

19,33,34; Joh 7:18; 2Co 6:4

nakedness.

Thy servants.

11,32; 29:32-35; 30:6-24; 35:16-26; 43:7; 46:8-27; Ex 1:2-5

Nu 1:1-54; 10:1-36; 26:1-65; 34:1-29; 1Ch 2:1-8:40

one is not.

36,38; 37:30; 44:20,28; 45:26; Jer 31:15; La 5:7; Mt 2:16,18

9-11; Job 13:24; 19:11; Mt 15:21-28

By the life.

7,12,16,30; De 6:13; 1Sa 1:26; 17:55; 20:3; Jer 5:2,7; Mt 5:33-37

Mt 23:16-22; Jas 5:12

except.

20,34; 43:3; 44:20-34

kept in prison. Heb. bound.

put. Heb. gathered.

Isa 24:22; Ac 5:18

ward.

40:4,7; 41:10; Le 24:12; Ps 119:65; Ac 4:3; Heb 12:10

I fear God.

20:11; Le 25:43; Ne 5:9,15; Lu 18:2,4

Joshua 2:1-3

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.

told the king.

Ps 127:1; Pr 21:30; Isa 43:13; Da 4:35

Bring.

10:23; Ge 38:24; Le 24:14; Job 21:30; Joh 19:4; Ac 12:4,6

to search.

Ge 42:9-12,31; 2Sa 10:3; 1Ch 19:3