Joshua 2:22 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 2:22

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּלְכוּ֙	vai.ye.le.Khu	and they went	H1980 →
וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ	vai.ya.Vo.'u	and they came	H935 →
הָהָ֔רָה	ha.Ha.rah	the hill country towards	H2022 →
וַיֵּ֤שְׁבוּ	vai.Ye.she.vu	and they remained	H3427 →
שָׁם֙	sham	there	H8033 →
שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת	she.Lo.shet	three	H7969 →
יָמִ֔ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
שָׁ֖בוּ	Sha.vu	they returned	H7725 →
הָרֹדְפִ֑ים	ha.ro.de.Fim	the pursuers	H7291 →
וַיְבַקְשׁ֧וּ	vay.vak.Shu	and they searched	H1245 →
הָרֹדְפִ֛ים	ha.ro.de.Fim	the pursuers	H7291 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	in all	H3605 →
הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ	ha.De.rekh	the way	H1870 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
מָצָֽאוּ׃	ma.Tza.'u	they found [them]	H4672 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H7291harodefimthe pursuers143×

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  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.