Josue 2:15

Clementine Latin Vulgate

cujus manus fuit adversum eos, ut interirent de castrorum medio.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Demisit ergo eos per funem de fenestra: domus enim ejus h�rebat muro.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Demisit ergo eos per funem de fenestra; domus enim eius haerebat muro, et in muro habitabat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

she let them: 1 Samuel 19:12-17, Acts 9:25, 2 Corinthians 11:33

for her house: Joshua 6:20

Reciprocal: Acts 17:10 - the brethren

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then she let them down by a cord through the window,.... Which must be large, and the cord strong, as well as she herself a masculine woman, to let down two men by it, unless she employed any of her servants in the affair; though this being so great a secrecy, it is probable she trusted none of her domestics with it as little as possible: in like manner the Apostle Paul was let down by the wall of Damascus in a basket, Acts 9:25; Jarchi supposes it was the same cord and window, by means of and in at which her gallants used to come and go:

for her house [was] upon the town wall; in a suitable and convenient place to receive her guests and gallants: and it is observed, that harlots have had their houses on or under walls: Martial speaks of harlots whom he calls l Summoenianae, whores that plied under the walls and in the suburbs of cities:

and she dwelt upon the wall; that part of the house in which she particularly dwelt was built on or over the wall, and the rest towards the city was for the entertainment of persons that resorted to her house.

l Epigram. l. 3. Ep. 62.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Upon the town wall - The town wall probably formed the back wall of the house, and the window opened therefore into the country. (Compare Paul’s escape, 2 Corinthians 11:33).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 2:15. Then she let them down by a cord c. — The natural place of this verse is after the first clause of Joshua 2:21 for it is certain that she did not let them down in the basket till all those circumstances marked from Joshua 2:16-20 inclusive had taken place.

She dwelt upon the wall. — That is, either the wall of the city made a part of her house or her house was built close to the wall, so that the top or battlements of it were above the wall with a window that looked out to the country. As the city gates were now shut there was no way for the spies to escape but through this window; and in order to this she let them down through the window in a basket suspended by a cord, till they reached the ground on the outside of the wall.