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Joshua 2:22

in Joshua 2

So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Joshua 2

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Unto the mountain - Probably the mountains to the west and north of Jericho, called afterward, from the belief that the 40 days of our Lord’s temptation were passed among them, the Quarantania. The spies avoided at the first the neighhourhood of the Jordan, where the pursuers sought them: and amidst the grottoes of the limestone rocks, which in later ages were the abode of numerous hermits, they could readily shelter themselves for three days.

This site's exposition

and abode there three days

on Joshua 2:22-24

The report at verse 24 is Rahab's own sentence from verse 9 handed back to Joshua, that the inhabitants of the land faint, so the intelligence the invasion runs on came out of the mouth of a Canaanite. Set beside Numbers 13:31-33, where ten men said we be not able to go up and described giants, this is the same country reported in the opposite direction, and Joshua was one of the two who dissented the first time. Adam Clarke marks the contrast between the two reports and reads this one as what Joshua needed in order to plan the campaign.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּלְכוּ֙and they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֣אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • הָהָ֔רָהthe hill country towards

    haharahH2022 →546 times

  • וַיֵּ֤שְׁבוּand they remained

    vaiyeshevuH3427 →1079 times

  • שָׁם֙there

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתthree

    sheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • יָמִ֔יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • שָׁ֖בוּthey returned

    shavuH7725 →1056 times

  • הָרֹדְפִ֑יםthe pursuers

    harodefimH7291 →143 times

  • וַיְבַקְשׁ֧וּand they searched

    vayvakshuH1245 →

  • הָרֹדְפִ֛יםthe pursuers

    harodefimH7291 →143 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַדֶּ֖רֶךְthe way

    haderekhH1870 →707 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • מָצָֽאוּ׃they found [them]

    matzauH4672 →455 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Samuel 17:20When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.2 works1 Samuel 19:10–12Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.2 worksPsalms 32:6–7Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.2 worksJoshua 2:16“Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”2 worksJoshua 6:17Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 17:20

    When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 1:19

      The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”

    • 1 Samuel 27:11–12

      David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the…

    • 1 Samuel 21:2

      “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a…

    • 1 Samuel 19:12–17

      So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

    • Joshua 2:22–23

      So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 2 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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