6But 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.
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By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)In these verses we have, I. The prudence of Joshua, in sending spies to observe this important pass, which was likely to be disputed at the entrance of Israel into Canaan (Josh. 2:1). Go view the land, even Jericho . Moses had sent spies (Num. 13:1-33) Joshua himself was one of them and it proved of ill consequence. Yet Joshua now sent spies, not, as the former were sent, to survey the whole land,…
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