Joshua 2:6
But 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.
Joshua 2:6 in other translations
| BSB | (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.) |
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| WEB | But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof. |
| ASV | But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. |
| YLT | and she hath caused them to go up on the roof, and hideth them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof. |
| DARBY | But she had taken them up to the roof, and secreted them under the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof. |
| BBE | But she had taken them up to the roof, covering them with the stems of flax which she had put out in order there. |
| Webster | But 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. |
What does Joshua 2:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 2:4-6
4-6. the woman took the two men, and hid them--literally, "him," that is, each of them in separate places, of course previous to the appearance of the royal messengers and in anticipation of a speedy search after her guests. According to Eastern manners, which pay an almost superstitious respect to a woman's apartment, the royal messengers did not demand admittance to search but asked her to bring the foreigners out.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 2:1-7
Faith in God's promises ought not to do away, but to encourage our diligence in the use of proper means. The providence of God directed the spies to the house of Rahab. God knew where there was one that would be true to them, though they did not. Rahab appears to have been an innkeeper; and if she had formerly been one of bad life, which is doubtful, she had left her evil courses. That which seems to us most…
Joshua 2:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Joshua 2:6
- James 2:25
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
- Hebrews 11:23
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.
- Colossians 3:3
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- 2 Samuel 17:19
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
- 1 Kings 18:13
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
- Joshua 2:8
And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
- 2 Kings 11:2
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
- Deuteronomy 22:8
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
- 1 Kings 18:4
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
- Jeremiah 36:26
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.
- Matthew 24:17
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
- 2 Samuel 11:2
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
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Context
- Joshua 2:5
And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
- Joshua 2:6
But 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.
- Joshua 2:7
And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
Joshua 2:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas ella los había hecho subir al terrado, y habíalos escondido entre tascos de lino que en aquel terrado tenía puestos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Or elle les avait fait monter sur le toit, et les avait cachés sous des tiges de lin qu’elle avait arrangées pour elle sur le toit. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie hatte sie aber auf das Dach hinaufgeführt und unter Flachsstengel versteckt, die sie sich auf dem Dache aufgeschichtet hatte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ipsa autem fecit ascendere viros in solarium domus suæ, operuitque eos stipula lini, quæ ibi erat. |