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Joshua 2

Joshua son of Nun send out two spies secretly to investigate the land of Jericho. Then we are told that they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and they stated there. (v1) Verse one sets the foundation for the rest of the narrative. We learn in verse two that the King of Jericho was notified that some of the Israelites where there that night to spy out the land. However, in verse three we are told that the King sends a message to Rahad. The text dos not tell us how the king knows that the two men are at Rahab house or who told him such information but, we do know that someone told him. Yet Rahab hid the two men and when the massager came to her and asked her to bring out the two men that had entered her house she told them that they had left at dusk when it was time for the city gats to close.  Verse three revels that there is more going on in the narrative then the eye can see it is clear that Rahab knows why the men are there and she also know that she needs to help them. Throughout  the rest of the narrative a number of things happen and we learn that she know that the LORD has given the two men the land and she asked them to save her and her families lives for she showed kindness to them.  Joshua 2 plays off the theme of the establishment of I serial in the promised land it is clear at the end of the text that the time has come for Iserial to move into the area as “The LORD has surely given the whole land into our hands.” V24.

Chris Davignon , North Park University Spring 2009 : Hebrew Bible Prophets class