YuēShūyàjì 2:4

4 Nǚrén jiāng èr rén yǐncáng , jiù huídá shuō , nà rén guǒrán dào wǒ zhèlǐ lái . tāmen shì nǎli lái de wǒ què bú zhīdào .

YuēShūyàjì 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 2:4

And the woman took the two men
Or "she had taken" them

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 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" ^F1: 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 ) .

F26 (xptw) "duxerat, tulerat"; so Syr. Ar. Kimchi, & Ben Melech.
F1 (wnputw) "et abscondit eum", Montanus; "abdiderat eum", Vatablus.

YuēShūyàjì 2:4 In-Context

2 Yǒu rén gàosu Yēlìgē wáng shuō , jīnyè yǒu Yǐsèliè rén lái dào zhèlǐ kuītàn cǐ dì .

3 Yēlìgē wáng dǎfa rén qù jiàn Lǎhé shuō , nà lái dào nǐ zhèlǐ , jìn le nǐ jia de rén yào jiāo chūlai , yīnwei tāmen lái kuītàn quán dì .

4 Nǚrén jiāng èr rén yǐncáng , jiù huídá shuō , nà rén guǒrán dào wǒ zhèlǐ lái . tāmen shì nǎli lái de wǒ què bú zhīdào .

5 Tiān hēi , yào guān chéng mén de shíhou , tāmen chū qù le , wǎng nǎli qù wǒ què bú zhīdào . nǐmen kuaì kuaì de qù zhuīgǎn , jiù bì zhuī shàng .

6 ( xiān shì nǚrén lǐng èr rén shàng le fáng dǐng , jiāng tāmen cáng zaì nàli suǒ bǎi de má jiē zhōng . )