Joshua 2:2-4

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Joshua 2:2 tn Or “look.”
2. Joshua 2:2 tn Heb “men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel.”
3. Joshua 2:3 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
4. Joshua 2:3 tn Heb “bring out.”
5. Joshua 2:3 tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, boʾ ʾel) probably has sexual connotations here, as it often does elsewhere when a man “comes to” a woman. If so, the phrase could be translated “your clients.” The instructions reflect Rahab’s perspective as to the identity of the men.
6. Joshua 2:3 tn The words “the ones who came to your house” (Heb “who came to your house”) may be a euphemistic scribal addition designed to blur the sexual connotation of the preceding words.
7. Joshua 2:4 tn Heb “The woman took the two men and hid him.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix on “hid” has to be a scribal error (see GKC §135.p).
8. Joshua 2:4 tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.