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Joshua 2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy
secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and
came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
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Joshua had been one of the twelve spies himself.
Only Calebt and Joshua in that generation
entered the promised land, all under the age of
20 didn't go into the promised land. Because
they started listen to man at the last hour.
(Numbers 13 & 14)
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Bible study the
promise land
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Why did the people call Rahab a harlot? God
didn't. She was not a harlot. She had a clothing
business.
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Men called her a harlot. Remember
The
Apocrypha of Susanna, Daniel and the Laws of
Moses, and man judges.
2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold,
there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search
out the country.
3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying,
Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine
house: for they be come to search out all the country.
4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and
said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they
were:
5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it
was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue
after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them
with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
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Stalks of flax was to make fine lining
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She hid the men of Israel from the king.
7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and
as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the
gate.
8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
9 And she said unto the men, I know that the
Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen
upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
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Rahab I know that the Lord hath given you
the land. How did she know that?
10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red
sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto
the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon
and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt,
neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you:
for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have
shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my
father's house, and give me a true token:
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Rahab was thinking of all her family.
13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my
brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives
from death.
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Ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and
my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they
have, and deliver our lives from death.
14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye
utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath
given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house
was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers
meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the
pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
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Do you think God was helping her?
17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath
which thou hast made us swear.
18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt
bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which
thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and
thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto
thee.
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Bind this line of scarlet thread, she's in the
clothing business
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The men of Israel is going to help her and her
family. She is going be with them.
19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of
thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head,
and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house,
his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine
oath which thou hast made us to swear.
21 And she said, According unto your words, so be it.
And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet
line in the window.
22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three
days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought
them throughout all the way, but found them not.
23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and
passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him
all things that befell them:
24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our
hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint
because of us.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of
Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be conquered by the
Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly
2520 years later America became a nation on
July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt -
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