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Selected Verse: Joshua 2:21 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jos 2:21 |
King James |
And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
she bound the scarlet line in the window--probably soon after the departure of the spies. It was not formed, as some suppose, into network, as a lattice, but simply to hang down the wall. Its red color made it conspicuous, and it was thus a sign and pledge of safety to Rahab's house, as the bloody mark on the lintels of the houses of the Israelites in Egypt to that people. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
scarlet line
The scarlet line of Rahab speaks, by its color, of safety through sacrifice. (Heb 9:19); (Heb 9:22). |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
When Rahab had accepted all these conditions, she let the men go, and bound the red cord in the window. It is not to be supposed that she did this at once, but merely as soon as it was necessary. It is mentioned here for the purpose of bringing the subject to a close. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
In the window - Forthwith, partly that the spies might see it hung out before their departure, and so the better know it at some distance; partly lest some accident might occasion a neglect about it. |
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,