约书亚记 2:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

但那女人已把那兩個人藏起來，還這樣回答王：“不錯，那些人到過我這裡來，但是，我不知道他們是從哪裡來的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
女 人 将 二 人 隐 藏 ， 就 回 答 说 ： 那 人 果 然 到 我 这 里 来 ； 他 们 是 那 里 来 的 我 却 不 知 道 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Joshua son of Nun secretly sent out two spies from Acacia and said to them, "Go and look at the land, particularly at the city of Jericho." So the men went to Jericho and stayed at the house of a prostitute named Rahab. ² Someone told the king of Jericho, "Some men from Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land." ³ So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: "Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house. They have come to spy out our whole land." ⁴ But the woman had hidden the two men. She said, "They did come here, but I didn't know where they came from. ⁵ In the evening, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don't know where they went, but if you go quickly, maybe you can catch them." ⁶ (The woman had taken the men up to the roof and had hidden them there under stalks of flax that she had spread out.) ⁷ So the king's men went out looking for the spies on the road that leads to the crossings of the Jordan River. The city gate was closed just after the king's men left the city.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 5:1
This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.

Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.

Genesis 11:10
This is the family history of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad was born.

Genesis 25:12
This is the family history of Ishmael, Abraham's son. (Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was Ishmael's mother.)

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.