Joshua 2:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

line. Hebrew "hope", put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the line which was the token of it.

by. through: referring to the window. Compare o. 21.

bring. gather.

home. unto the hour. The "line" was outside, for Joshua to see; not for the inmates. Compare Exodus 12:13,

When. see, &c. So the ground of our assurance is not experience within, but the token without.

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.