Joshua 2:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

When we come into the land That is, over Jordan, and near the city. This line of scarlet The Hebrew word, תקות, tickvath, more properly means, rope, riband, or web. Probably the same with which she was about to let them down. Window That it may be easily discerned by our soldiers.

Joshua 2:18

18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bringc thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.