Joshua 2:16 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 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.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

KJV

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The mountain - That is, to some of the mountains wherewith Jericho was encompassed, in which also there were many caves where they might lurk. Three days - Not three whole days, but one whole day, and part of two days.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
לָהֶם֙	la.Hem	to <the> them
הָהָ֣רָה	ha.Ha.rah	the hill country towards	H2022 →
לֵּ֔כוּ	Le.khu	go	H1980 →
פֶּֽן־	pen-	lest	H6435 →
יִפְגְּע֥וּ	yif.ge.'U	they should meet	H6293 →
בָכֶ֖ם	va.Khem	<in> <the> you
הָרֹדְפִ֑ים	ha.ro.de.Fim	the pursuers	H7291 →
וְנַחְבֵּתֶ֨ם	ve.nach.be.Tem	and you will hide yourselves	H2247 →
שָׁ֜מָּה	Sha.mah	there <towards>	H8033 →
שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת	she.Lo.shet	three	H7969 →
יָמִ֗ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
עַ֚ד	'ad	until	H5704 →
שׁ֣וֹב	Shov	return	H7725 →
הָרֹֽדְפִ֔ים	ha.ro.de.Fim	the pursuers	H7291 →
וְאַחַ֖ר	ve.'a.Char	and after	H310 →
תֵּלְכ֥וּ	te.le.Khu	you will go	H1980 →
לְדַרְכְּכֶֽם׃	le.dar.ke.Khem	to way your	H1870 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

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.

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…
- Joshua 2:19–21
  If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with…
- Joshua 2:15
  Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
Through
Psalms 11:1
In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
leads to
- Psalms 56:11
  in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
- Isaiah 26:3–4
  You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
- 1 Samuel 23:14
  And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
- Psalms 25:2
  in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.