Joshua 2:6
But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Exodus 2:2And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Joshua 2:8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
2 Samuel 17:19And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.
1 Kings 18:13Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
Jeremiah 36:26And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, 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 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 →