约书亚记 2:11

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我們聽見了，就都心裡驚怕；沒有一人再有勇氣在你們面前站立；因為耶和華你們的　神是天上、也是地上的　神。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 们 一 听 见 这 些 事 ， 心 就 消 化 了 。 因 你 们 的 缘 故 ， 并 无 一 人 有 胆 气 。 耶 和 华 ─ 你 们 的 　 神 本 是 上 天 下 地 的 　 神 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ Before the spies went to sleep for the night, Rahab went up to the roof. ⁹ She said to them, "I know the Lord has given this land to your people. You frighten us very much. Everyone living in this land is terribly afraid of you ¹⁰ because we have heard how the Lord dried up the Red Sea when you came out of Egypt. We have heard how you destroyed Sihon and Og, two Amorite kings who lived east of the Jordan. ¹¹ When we heard this, we were very frightened. Now our men are afraid to fight you because the Lord your God rules the heavens above and the earth below! ¹² So now, promise me before the Lord that you will show kindness to my family just as I showed kindness to you. Give me some proof that you will do this. ¹³ Allow my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all of their families to live. Save us from death." ¹⁴ The men agreed and said, "It will be our lives for your lives if you don't tell anyone what we are doing. When the Lord gives us the land, we will be kind and true to you." ¹⁵ The house Rahab lived in was built on the city wall, so she used a rope to let the men down through a window. ¹⁶ She said to them, "Go into the hills so the king's men will not find you. Hide there for three days. After the king's men return, you may go on your way." ¹⁷ The men said to her, "You must do as we say. If not, we cannot be responsible for keeping this oath you have made us swear.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

our hearts: Joshua 5:1, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 14:8, Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 20:8, Isaiah 13:7, Nahum 2:10

did there remain: Heb. rose up, Revelation 6:16

for the Lord: Deuteronomy 4:39, 1 Kings 8:60, Psalms 83:18, Psalms 102:15, Jeremiah 16:19-21, Daniel 4:34, Daniel 4:35, Daniel 6:25-27, Zechariah 8:20-23

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:16 - for to Exodus 15:15 - all the Numbers 22:3 - General Joshua 2:9 - faint Joshua 2:24 - faint 1 Kings 8:42 - For they shall 2 Chronicles 20:6 - God in heaven Nehemiah 9:10 - didst Psalms 9:16 - known Psalms 46:6 - earth Psalms 119:28 - soul Isaiah 19:1 - the heart Jeremiah 49:23 - fainthearted

Cross-References

Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these people were the sons of Joktan.

Genesis 25:18
His descendants lived from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt stretching toward Assyria. They often attacked the descendants of his brothers.

1 Samuel 15:7
Then Saul defeated the Amalekites. He fought them all the way from Havilah to Shur, at the border of Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt,.... Particularly what were done to the two kings of the Amorites, who, and their people, were utterly destroyed, their goods made a prey of, and their countries seized upon and possessed:

neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you; they looked dejected in their countenances, had no heart to go about any business, trembled at the shaking of a leaf, or at the least rumour and report made that the Israelites were coming on and were at hand; they had no spirit to prepare to go out and meet them, or to defend themselves:

for the Lord your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath; the Maker and Possessor of both; is the Governor of the whole universe, and does what he pleases in it; and disposes of all countries, persons, and things, as he thinks fit: this is a proof of her knowledge of the true God, and faith in him, and shows her to be a believer, and hence she is reckoned in the catalogue of believers,

Hebrews 11:31; and her faith is proved to be of the right kind by the works she did, James 2:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord your God, he is God - From the rumour of God’s miraculous interpositions Rahab believed, and makes the self-same confession to which Moses endeavors to bring Israel by rehearsing similar arguments Deuteronomy 4:39. Rahab had only heard of what Israel had experienced. Her faith then was ready. It is noteworthy, too, that the same reports which work faith and conversion in the harlot, cause only terror and astonishment among her countrymen. (Compare Luke 8:37-39.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 2:11. He is God in heaven above, and to earth beneath. — This confession of the true God is amazingly full, and argues considerable light and information. As if she had said, "I know your God to be omnipotent and omnipresent:" and in consequence of this faith she hid the spies, and risked her own life in doing it. But how had she this clear knowledge of the Divine nature?

1. Possibly the knowledge of the true God was general in the earth at this time, though connected with much superstition and idolatry; the people believing that there was a god for every district, and for every people; for the mountains and for the valleys; see 1 Kings 20:23.

2. Or she received this instruction from the spies, with whom she appears to have had a good deal of conversation; or,

3. She had it from a supernatural influence of God upon her own soul. She probably made a better use of the light she had received than the rest of her countrymen, and God increased that light.