Joshua 2:4

wist not. Anglo-Saxon for "knew not". It is this record that is inspired, not the act and words of Rahab.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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⁴ And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:

Related Commentaries of Joshua 2:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 2:4