Jozua 2:16

16 En zij zeide tot hen: Gaat op het gebergte, opdat niet misschien de vervolgers u ontmoeten, en verbergt u aldaar drie dagen, totdat de vervolgers wedergekeerd zullen zijn; en gaat daarna uw weg.

Jozua 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 2:16

And she said unto them, get ye unto the mountain
Which was near to the city, and is supposed to be the same which is now called Quarantania: Dr. Shaw, a late traveller in those parts, says {m}, from the mountain Quarantania, the very same perhaps where the two spies concealed themselves, ( Joshua 2:16 ) , we have a distinct view of the land of the Amorites, of Gilead, and of Bashan, the inheritance of the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasseh--to it joins the mountain of Adummim, and through it the road is cut that leads from Jerusalem to Jericho, where probably it was from the very nature of the situation that the man fell among thieves, ( Luke 10:30 ) ; which very probably is the same mountain which Josephus F14 says hung over the city, and was a very barren one; though the singular may be put for the plural, since, as Strabo says F15, it was surrounded with mountains:

lest the pursuers meet you;
on their return from the fords of Jordan, being disappointed:

and hide yourselves there three days:
some of the Jewish Rabbins, as Jarchi and Kimchi, observe that she had this by the revelation of the Holy Ghost, that the pursuers would return at the end of three days; but the latter more truly remarks, that this was said by conjecture; that Jericho being, as he says, one day from Jordan, and a little more, by going, returning, and searching for the spies, they would be three days in doing it:

until the pursuers be returned;
into the city; for until they were they could not be in safety, but must be in danger of being met by them and taken up:

and afterward may ye go your way:
to Jordan, and so to the camp of Israel, and that without fear.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 Travels, p. 276. Ed. 2.
F14 De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 2.
F15 Geograph. l. 16. p. 525.

Jozua 2:16 In-Context

14 Toen spraken die mannen tot haar: Onze ziel zij voor ulieden om te sterven, indien gijlieden deze onze zaak niet te kennen geeft; het zal dan geschieden, wanneer de HEERE ons dit land geeft, zo zullen wij aan u weldadigheid en trouw bewijzen.
15 Zij liet hen dan neder met een zeel door het venster; want haar huis was op den stadsmuur; en zij woonde op den muur.
16 En zij zeide tot hen: Gaat op het gebergte, opdat niet misschien de vervolgers u ontmoeten, en verbergt u aldaar drie dagen, totdat de vervolgers wedergekeerd zullen zijn; en gaat daarna uw weg.
17 Ook zeiden die mannen tot haar: Wij zullen onschuldig zijn van dezen uw eed, dien gij ons hebt doen zweren;
18 Zie, wanneer wij in het land komen, zo zult gij dit snoer van scharlakendraad aan het venster binden, door hetwelk gij ons zult nedergelaten hebben; en gij zult tot u in het huis vergaderen uw vader, en uw moeder, en uw broeders, en het ganse huisgezin uws vaders.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.