Discovery BoxJoshua 2:2-3 
Context2:2 The king of Jericho received this report: “Note well! 1 Israelite men have come here tonight 2 to spy on the land.” 2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: 3 “Turn over 4 the men who came to you 5 – the ones who came to your house 6 – for they have come to spy on the whole land!”
Joshua 6:25
Context6:25 Yet Joshua spared 7 Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, 8 and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel 9 to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. 10
Joshua 7:2
Context7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho 11 to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel 12 ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.
Joshua 14:7
Context14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. 13
1 tn Or “look.”
2 tn Heb “men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel.”
3 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
4 tn Heb “bring out.”
5 tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, bo’ ’el) 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 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 tn Heb “kept alive.”
8 tn Heb the house of her father.”
9 tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”
10 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
11 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
12 map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
13 tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”
