Joshua 2:6

But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went out together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them quickly, and you will overtake them.

7Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that leadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out, the gate was presently shut.

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Cross References

Exodus 2:2And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid him three months.

Joshua 2:8The men that were hidden were not yet asleep, when behold the woman went up to them, and said:

2 Samuel 17:19And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley: and so the thing was not known.

1 Kings 18:13Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?

Jeremiah 36:26And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremias the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

Colossians 3:3For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 2:2-8

The Two Spies and Rahab. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 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 a harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country. 3 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… Read the whole commentary →

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