Bible Strands
Joshua 6:22
Meanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joshua addresses the two spies at the moment of Jericho’s destruction, ordering them to secure Rahab and her household before the city’s complete annihilation.
The words — The Hebrew בּוֹאוּ (Bo.'u) issues a direct command to “go,” while הַמְרַגְּלִים (ha.merag.ge.lim) identifies the agents as “the ones who had spied out” the land.
The thread — This command executes the conditional rescue outlined in Joshua 6:17 and is later recorded in Hebrews 11:31 as the factual basis for Rahab’s deliverance.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to acknowledge that divine judgment executes with exact boundaries, preserving specific individuals without negating the declared destruction of the city.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
Cross-references
- Hebrews 11:31 By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
- Joshua 6:17 Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- Ezekiel 17:18 He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’
- Psalms 15:4 who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
- Ezekiel 17:13 He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
- Ezekiel 17:16 ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
- Joshua 2:1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- Joshua 9:15 And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
- Joshua 9:18 But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.
- 2 Samuel 21:2 At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)