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Joshua 2:6

King James Version (KJV)

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Joshua 2:6

Verse 6 of 24

Scripture focus

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.

Joshua 2:6 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Joshua 2:6

Theological / Devotional

Brought them up. Literally, “caused them to go up,” that is, to the flat roof, so common in the Near East. According to Jewish law, the roof was to be provided with a parapet (Deuteronomy 22:8). Even the roof of a public building was flat (Judges 16:27). A roof might be used as a promenade (2 Samuel 11:2) or for prayer (Acts 10:9). Rahab used it, as did many others, for drying stalks of flax, from which she would make linen cloth, and so it is used today. Flax and barley are both early crops (Exodus 9:31), and this was the first month (Joshua 4:19).

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