2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: 5 “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” 6 They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. 7
7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho 8 to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel 9 ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.
1 tn Heb “and appoint by it men to guard them.”
1 tn Or “look.”
2 tn Heb “men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel.”
1 tn Heb “I will send them so they may arise and walk about in the land and describe it in writing according to their inheritance and come to me.”
1 tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”
2 tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”
3 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”
1 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
2 map For the location of Bethel see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.