Joshua 2:3-5

2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab:¹ “Turn over² the men who came to you³ – the ones who came to your house⁴ – for they have come to spy on the whole land!” 2:4 But the woman hid the two men⁵ and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine,⁶ but I didn’t know where they came from. 2:5 When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left.⁷ I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”

Joshua 2:2

2:2 The king of Jericho received this report: “Note well!⁸ Israelite men have come here tonight⁹ to spy on the land.”

Joshua 17:1

17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land.¹⁰ The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors.¹¹ They were assigned Gilead and Bashan.¹²

¹tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”

²tn Heb “bring out.”

³tn 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.

⁴tn 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.

⁵tn 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).

⁶tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.

⁷tn Heb “And the gate was to be shut in the darkness and the men went out.”

⁸tn Or “look.”

⁹tn Heb “men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”

¹¹tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”

¹²tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”