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Biblia Gdańska

Księga Jozuego 2:4

Ale wziąwszy ona niewiasta tych dwóch mężów, skryła je, i rzekła: Prawdać jest, przyszli do mnie mężowie; alem nie wiedziała, skąd byli.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Falsehood;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Hospitality;   Reconnoissance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Lying, Examples of;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Truth-Falsehood;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Rahab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Rahab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Architecture in the Biblical Period;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hoshea;   Jericho;   Joshua;   Rahab;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jericho;   Rahab, Rachab ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jericho;   Rahab;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Shittim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jer'icho;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Ale ona niewiasta wziąwszy ony dwa męże, skryła je była i rzekła: Prawdać jest, iż niektórzy mężowie do mnie przyszli, alem nie wiedziała skąd byli.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Rachab jednak ukryła obu mężczyzn i powiedziała: Tak, przyszli do mnie mężczyźni, o których mówicie. Nie wiedziałam, skąd są.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zaś ta kobieta wzięła owych dwóch mężów, ukryła ich i powiedziała: Rzeczywiście, przybyli do mnie ci mężowie, ale nie wiem skąd byli.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Ale wziąwszy ona niewiasta tych dwóch mężów, skryła je, i rzekła: Prawdać jest, przyszli do mnie mężowie; alem nie wiedziała, skąd byli.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Kobieta jednak wzięła tych dwóch mężczyzn, ukryła ich i powiedziała: To prawda, że przyszli do mnie mężczyźni, ale nie wiedziałam, skąd oni są.
Biblia Warszawska
Lecz kobieta ta wzięła obu tych mężów i ukryła ich, potem zaś rzekła: Rzeczywiście, przyszli do mnie jacyś mężowie, ja jednak nie wiedziałam, skąd oni są.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 1:19, 2 Samuel 16:18, 2 Samuel 16:19, 2 Samuel 17:19, 2 Samuel 17:20, 2 Kings 6:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:29 - wist Joshua 6:17 - because 1 Samuel 27:10 - And David 2 Samuel 17:17 - stayed Hebrews 11:31 - she had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the woman took the two men,.... Or "she had taken" them z before the messengers came, upon a rumour she understood was gone abroad, that she had got Israelitish spies in her house, and so might expect to be visited and searched by the king's officers, and therefore took this precaution:

and hid them; the Hebrew word is singular, "him" a: hence the Jews, who take these two spies to be Caleb and Phinehas, say, that only Caleb was hid, and Phinehas, though he was before them, was not seen, being an angel, Malachi 2:7; but the sense is, that she hid each of them, and very probably singly and apart, that if one was found, the other might escape, as Ben Gersom observes; and Abarbinel is of opinion that she hid them twice, now in the middle of her house, one in one place, and the other in another, for the reason before given, and after this hid them in the roof of her house, as afterwards related:

and said thus, there came men unto me; that is, into her house, this she owned:

but I wist not whence they [were]; of what country they were, whether Israelites or not; which whether she knew or not is not certain; it is probable she did, and told an untruth, as she also did in Joshua 2:5.

z ותפח "duxerat, tulerat"; so Syr. Ar. Kimchi, Ben Melech. a ותצפנו "et abscondit eum", Montanus "abdiderat eum", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I wist not whence they were - Rahab acted as she did from the belief in God’s declared word, and conviction that resistance to His will would be both vain and wicked Joshua 2:9-11. Thus, she manifested a faith both sound and practical, and is praised accordingly Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25. The falsehood to which she had recourse may be excused by the pressure of circumstances and by her own antecedents, but cannot be defended.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 2:4. And hid them — Probably she secreted them for the time being in some private corner, till she had the opportunity of concealing them on the house-top in the manner mentioned Joshua 2:6.


 
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