Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
Note Or Acacia Grove
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Note sent: or, had sent
Note lodged: Heb. lay
Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- sent
- or, had sent. Shittim.
- Numbers 25:1; Numbers 33:49
- to spy secretly
- Numbers 13:2, 17–21; Judges 18:2, 14, 17; Matthew 10:16; Ephesians 5:5
- even Jericho
- Joshua 5:10; Joshua 6:1–24
- harlot's house
- Though the word {zonah} generally denotes a prostitute, yet many very learned men are of opinion that it should be here rendered an innkeeper or hostess, from {zoon,} to furnish or provide food. In this sense it was understood by the Targumist, who renders it, {ittetha pundekeetha,} "a woman, a tavern-keeper," and so St. Chrysostome, in his second sermon on Repentance, calls her [pandokeutria.] The Greek [porné,] by which the LXX. render it, and which is adopted by the Apostles, is derived from [pernaó,] to sell, and is also supposed to denote a tavern keeper. Among the ancients, women generally kept houses of entertainment. Herodotus says, "Among the Egyptians, the women carry on all commercial concerns, and keep taverns, while the men continue at home and weave." The same custom prevailed among the Greeks.
- Joshua 6:17, 25; Matthew 1:5
- Rachab
- Joshua 21:31; Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25