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Joshua 2:3

in Joshua 2

So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.

KJV

And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.

This verse in Joshua 2

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The king of Jericho sent unto Rahab - This appears to be a proof of the preceding opinion: had she been a prostitute or a person of ill fame he could at once have sent officers to have seized the persons lodged with her as vagabonds; but if she kept a house of entertainment, the persons under her roof were sacred, according to the universal custom of the Asiatics, and could not be molested on any trifling grounds.

This site's exposition

there came men in hither

on Joshua 2:2-3

The report reaches the throne the same night the men arrive, and the king already knows they are of the children of Israel, so the city had been watching the river before anybody crossed it. Jericho has a king of its own, which is how Canaan is organised through this book, one king to a city, and Joshua 12:24 counts thirty-one of them at the end. The king sends word asking Rahab to bring the men out rather than sending officers to search the house, and Adam Clarke takes that as a sign her house was a public lodging where guests could not be seized on light grounds.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁלַח֙and he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971845 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH44282525 times

  • יְרִיח֔וֹJericho

    yerichoH340557 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • רָחָ֖בRahab

    rachavH73435 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH5595305 times

  • ה֠וֹצִיאִיbring out

    hotziiH33181067 times

  • הָאֲנָשִׁ֨יםthe men

    haanashimH582566 times

  • הַבָּאִ֤יםwho came

    habaimH9352568 times

  • אֵלַ֙יִךְ֙to you

    ʾelayikhH4135510 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • בָּ֣אוּthey came

    bauH9352568 times

  • לְבֵיתֵ֔ךְto house your

    leveitekhH10042046 times

  • כִּ֛יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • לַחְפֹּ֥רto spy out

    lachporH2658

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הָאָ֖רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • בָּֽאוּ׃they have come

    bauH9352568 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Job 21:30

    Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 16:4

      The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

    • 2 Peter 2:9–17

      if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

    • 2 Peter 3:7

      And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

  • Through

    Leviticus 24:14

    “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 17:7

      The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    • Leviticus 20:27

      A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’”

    • Deuteronomy 21:21

      Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

    • John 10:31–33

      At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 10:3

    the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 42:9

      Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.