Stalks of flax - literally, “the carded fibres of the tree.” The flax in Palestine grew to more than three feet in height, with a stalk as thick as a cane. It was probably with the flax stalks, recently cut (compare Exodus 9:31, note) and laid out on the house roof to dry, that Rahab hid the spies.
Related Commentaries of Joshua 2:6
Joshua 2:6
6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.