John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 6:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, etc.] Whom he had sent on that errand, (<060201>Joshua 2:1); and what follows he had said unto them before the people entered into the city, and perhaps before the walls of it fell; and indeed from (<060616>Joshua 6:16,17), it appears to have been said at the time he gave the people orders to shout: go into the harlot’s house: he does not mention her name but they full well knew who he meant: and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath; not so much her substance, as her father’s household, she had got together there, that they might be saved, as had been promised her: as ye sware unto her; so that this order was partly on account of her kindness to them, (<060617>Joshua 6:17); and partly on account of the oath which they had taken, and which Joshua would have inviolably kept.

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