Joshua 2:6

and she has caused them to go up on the roof, and hides them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof.

Literal Standard Version

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 it comes to pass—the gate is to [be] shut—in the dark, and the men have gone out; I have not known to where the men have gone; pursue, hurry after them, for you overtake them”;

7And the men have pursued after them the way of the Jordan, by the fords, and they have shut the gate afterward when the pursuers have gone out after them.

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Cross References

Exodus 2:2and the woman conceives, and bears a son, and she sees him, that he [is] beautiful, and she hides him [for] three months,

Joshua 2:8And before they lie down, she has gone up to them on the roof,

2 Samuel 17:19and the woman takes and spreads the covering over the face of the well, and spreads the ground grain on it, and the thing has not been known.

1 Kings 18:13Has it not been declared to my lord that which I have done in Jezebel’s slaying the prophets of YHWH, that I hide one hundred men of the prophets of YHWH, fifty by fifty in a cave, and sustained them with bread and water?

Jeremiah 36:26And the king commands Jerahmeel son of Hammelek, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, and YHWH hides them.

Colossians 3:3for you died, and your life has been hid with the 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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