The pictorial Bible and commentator- presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner (1878) (14577477058)

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Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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desired the Reuben-ites and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, who hadalready got their possessions, to join their brethren andassist in taking the land, which they honorably agreed to do, as they hadbefore promised. And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spysecretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho: and they went and cameunto a harlots house, named Rahab, and lodged there. A harlot means a very wicked woman, and as persons who kept innswere not always the most moral, they all got this name. But it is reason-ably thought, that Rahab was not so bad as the name means, but only aninn-keeper, where these spies went to lodge; for it does not seem likely thatgood men would, if they could help it, go to lodge with so vile a person asa harlot means, and much less can we suppose that Salmon, a Jewish prince,would afterwards have married such an one; but he did marry Rahab.(See Matt. i. 5.) The king of Jericho soon learnt that there were spies entered into his 215
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Joshua. 217 city, and finding out where they were, he sent to Rahab to deliver them up.However, instead of delivering them up, she hid them. And she said thatthe men had been there, but they were gone, and if they were pursued, theywould soon be overtaken. Now all this time she knew that the men were on the flat roof of herhouse, for so the roofs are made in that part of the world; and she hadcovered them over with stalks of flax, which she had laid upon the roof, todry in the sun, in order to the beating of it, and making it ready for thewheel—a proof that she was an industrious woman. We learn in the eleventh chapter of the Hebrews that Rahab saved her-self and her family by faith. She believed that God would destroy thewicked people among whom she lived, as he had already destroyed the twokings of the Amorites that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og;and therefore she would not be guilty of giving up his faithful servants toperish. If this had not been a case quite out of