the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Darby's French Translation
Josué 2:3
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Le roi de Jérico envoya dire à Rahab: Fais sortir les hommes qui sont venus chez toi, qui sont entrés dans ta maison; car ils sont venus pour explorer tout le pays.
Le roi de Jéricho envoya dire à Rahab: Fais sortir les hommes qui sont venus chez toi, qui sont entrés dans ta maison; car c'est pour explorer tout le pays qu'ils sont venus.
Et le Roi de Jérico envoya vers Rahab, en disant : Fais sortir les hommes qui sont venus chez toi, et qui sont entrés dans ta maison; car ils sont venus pour reconnaître tout le pays.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Bring: Joshua 10:23, Genesis 38:24, Leviticus 24:14, Job 21:30, John 19:4, Acts 12:4, Acts 12:6
to search: Genesis 42:9-12, Genesis 42:31, 2 Samuel 10:3, 1 Chronicles 19:3
Reciprocal: Numbers 13:20 - good courage Judges 4:20 - Is there
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab,.... Not merely because she kept a public house, or being a prostitute had often strangers in it, and so conjectured that the men he had notice of might be there; but he sent upon certain information that they were seen to go in there, as it follows:
saying, bring forth the men that are come to thee; not to commit lewdness with her, though this is the sense some Jewish commentators give; but this neither agrees with the character of the men Joshua had chosen for this purpose, nor answers any end of the king to suggest; nor can it be thought that Rahab would so openly and freely own this, as in Joshua 2:4: but what is meant by the phrase is explained in the following clause,
which are entered into thine house: in order to lodge there that night:
for they be come to search out all the country; so it was suspected, nor was the suspicion groundless.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 2:3. The king of Jericho sent unto Rahab — This appears to be a proof of the preceding opinion: had she been a prostitute or a person of ill fame he could at once have sent officers to have seized the persons lodged with her as vagabonds; but if she kept a house of entertainment, the persons under her roof were sacred, according to the universal custom of the Asiatics, and could not be molested on any trifling grounds. A guest or a friend is sacred in whatever house he may be received, in every part of the east to the present day.
