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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 20

Joshua 2:9

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Joshua 2:9

Ver. 9. And she said unto the men,.... The two spies:

I know that the Lord hath given you the land; the land of Canaan, of which she was an inhabitant, and in which they now were; this she knew either by some tradition that was among them; or by divine revelation, a supernatural impulse upon her mind: or by observing what the Lord had done already, in putting the land of the Amorites into their hands, which were one of the seven nations of Canaan; and by this it also appears, and more clearly by what follows, that she had knowledge of the Lord God, the God of Israel:

and that your terror is fallen upon us; which was another token or sign by which she knew the land would be delivered to them; that they who were a formidable people, and struck terror into others, now were terrified themselves, at the rumour of Israel being come to invade them; this was what the Lord said should be the case, De 11:25;

and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you; or "melt" {f}, like wax before the fire, as Moses had predicted, Ex 15:15.

{f} wgmn "liquefacti sunt", Montanus, Piscator.

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