20Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
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And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
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. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)We have seen the army of the Canaanites totally 3434 routed. It is said ( Ps. 83:9 , 10 , where the defeat of this army is pleaded as a precedent for God’s doing the like in after times) that they became as dung for the earth . Now here we have, I. The fall of their general, Sisera, captain of the host, in whom, it is likely, Jabin their king put an entire confidence, and therefore was not himself…
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