Joshua 2:6

(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)

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KJV

But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

ASV

But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

YLT

and she hath caused them to go up on the roof, and hideth them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof.

DBT

But she had taken them up to the roof, and secreted them under the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof.

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"I will be mindful of Rahab," of Rahab, that harlot who lodged Jesus' [Joshua's] secret agents, who lived in Jericho where Jesus [Joshua] had come and had dispatched the two spies. Jericho, that collapsed in seven days, is a type of this world, and as such is determined to kill the secret agents. Because, therefore, Jericho is bent upon killing the spies, Rahab, the harlot, alone received them, lodged them not on the ground floor but in the upper story of the roof—or, in other words, in the sublimity of her faith.

Jerome· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 18 (Ps 86), 420patristic

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But she had brought them up to the roof of the house,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Hid then with the stalks of flax - It is a matter of little consequence whether we translate פסתי העיץ pistey haets stalks of flax, or stalks of hemp: the word עץ ets, which signifies wood, serves to show that whether it was hemp or flax, it was in its rough, unmanufactured state; and as this was about the season, viz., the end of March or the beginning of April, in which the flax is ripe in that country, consequently Rahabs flax might have been recently pulled, and was now drying on the roof of her house.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

From this instance of her honest industry one would hope that, whatever she had been formerly, she was not now a harlot. When she was examined concerning them, she denied they were in her house, turned off the officers that had a warrant to search for them with a sham, and so secured them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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James 2:25
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?
Hebrews 11:23
By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
Joshua 6:25
And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
2 Samuel 17:19
Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
Exodus 1:15–21
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
2 Samuel 11:2
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Matthew 24:17
Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
1 Kings 18:13
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
Exodus 2:2
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
Jeremiah 36:26
Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

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PersonConquestRahabThe harlot of Jericho who hid the spies, hung the scarlet cord in her window, and was saved with her house — a Canaanite grafted i…

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The Walls of Jericho Fall Down — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Joshua himself at least in part (24:26 — ‘Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God’); later editorial framing traditional
Date: Events c. 1400 BC (early) or 1230 BC (late); compilation across the early-monarchy period

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
leads to
- Galatians 2:20
  I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
- Romans 6:2
  Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
- Colossians 2:20
  If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
- John 5:24
  Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
- Romans 8:2
  For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
Through
James 2:25
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?
leads to
- Hebrews 11:31
  By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
- Joshua 6:22–25
  Meanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised…
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Hebrews 11:23
By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
leads to
- Exodus 1:22
  Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

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