40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Joshua 2:1-24 (Episode 183)

Episode Date: September 20, 2019

Joshua decides to send out spies and we are introduced to a prostitute named Rahab. Why did the spies go to her house? How does she know about the God of Israel? Why does she lie to save the spies? What is significant about the way she will be saved from the coming war? Chad and Daniel discuss this and more. Have a listen! 1517 Podcast Network Academy Course with Daniel and Erick HWSS Conference Donate

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gonna have an interesting uh narrative coming up today yeah um hide the kids just in the car we're gonna be it's gonna get a little it's gonna look good a little pg-13 in here today yeah we might need a rating on uh rating on this one yeah so uh the whole chapter or at least the vast majority of the chapter is uh it's about our uh our friend named rahab or rachav if we were to say it in the hebrew fashion and there are uh there are a couple of couple of different occurrences of the name Rahab where it's spelled exactly the same. I've had people ask me about this, so I want to clarify that right away.

So in Joshua, when we're dealing with the individual name Rahab, it's spelled differently than the Rahab that you can read about, for instance, in the book of Isaiah. There's a sea monster whose name is Rahab too. And it's spelled, at least if you're not reading King James, I think King James spells the names differently.

But I had someone ask me about that, like, is this the same name? No, it's actually not. There's two letters in Hebrew, both of which are like an H. One is like pretty much our English H, and one is kind of a rough H. So this is the rough H individual in Joshua 2. So it's really Rahab, which is sometimes spelled R-A-C-H-A-B. But we're used to pronouncing it Rahab, so we're just going to stick with that pronunciation. But just be aware that if you run across some sea monster in the book of Isaiah whose name is Rahab, the sea monster was not named after the prostitute in Jericho. We're dealing with two different spellings. This is kind of an interesting story in lots of different ways. You know, one of the things that first struck me about this is, just from a kind of a literary perspective, is that this story is fronted on the book of Joshua.

I mean, I think that in itself is significant, that not only that it was put at the front to the book of joshua but just that it was considered important enough to spend almost a whole chapter talking about right so you get kind of this introductory section chapter one okay you know moses moses is dead joshua's taken over and we're gonna get all ready you know go through the tribes tell them all right everything's about to happen i know you've been waiting your whole life for this but it actually is finally here okay so we get to that point and it could have jumped ahead to saying they crossed the jordan you know they kicked jericho's butt and they went on from there but that's not the way that the author put this together he spends 21

verses which in from a biblical perspective is a lot talking about rahab which as i say from just from a literary perspective not to mention the theological perspective is significant he shoves this story right up to the front of the book of joshua i think it's interesting that the bible as a whole does not shy away from stories about sinners try to like gloss over like well all the the sort of heroic things or good things were done by great you know great and righteous people but man there's a lot of prostitution in the bible that it just doesn't shy away from it that's old and new testament is not just like a jesus thing i think we get we get that with with jesus you know we see the life of christ and we're like okay everyone that's hanging out with him is you know

uh he's got gentiles and he's got tax collectors and he's got adulterers and prostitutes and all this different kind of stuff right and of course we know that the pharisees are all upset about this well one of the things that's surprising about them being so upset is god has sort of always had those people interspersed in the narrative there's the old testament is full of non-israelites and prostitutes and i mean if you read the book of hosea there's all this kind of stuff you read the book of ezekiel it's like this at the idea that god sort of desires to bring those people in uh that he desires to use them to have a relationship with them that should not be a foreign concept to the pharisees and scribes whose job it is is to study the old testament

this is one of the first examples of this but it's certainly not the last yeah along those same lines what's interesting is you do see at least in some of the jewish writings around the first century a desire to whitewash some of these narratives and i don't know if this was a i i did some reading on kind of the early Pharisaic or rabbinical treatment of Rahab. And then I also looked at the Jewish historian Josephus, who is late for century AD, and his treatment of Rahab as well. And there is a pronounced tendency to whitewash this story. So for instance, It's that the Jewish historian Josephus in his book about the, it's kind of a summary of the Old Testament, retelling of the Old Testament, the antiquities of the Jews. When he gets to the story of Rahab, there's no mention of her being a prostitute, which I find quite fascinating.

Instead, he describes her as an innkeeper. So she basically has a hotel. she got she got a hotel jericho and a couple of these interlight spies come in and they need a place to crash so they rent a room from her yeah that's kind of the impression that you get of get of rahab i mean i i see that as josephus was writing for greeks he wrote in greek and so he's writing for he's writing for for his roman audience and i think this was probably josephus's way of trying to clean up the story a little bit maybe to make it a little bit more palatable to the romans when they read this so they couldn't read this and be like oh gosh you know look at

those look at those israelites uh getting saved by a prostitute because you know it's scandalous right yeah well what's the best construction you can put on a brothel i guess you can call it an inn i mean i suppose you could spend the night there uh but it's not exactly what's going on That sounds like going to the strip club and then telling your wife that you were at the bar. Yeah, I just went out for drinks. I mean, technically true, but omitting a detail that everyone would be very interested in knowing about. Yeah, pretty significant detail there. We went to an inn, you know, a place where you can spend the night.

It's an inn, right? Yeah. Sure. Yeah, I mean, back to your original point. This is, as you say, this is just one example. But we have a whole lot of examples from the Old Testament, and we have talked about a bunch of those, if you've been with us this whole time, scattered throughout the Torah, but especially in the book of Genesis, numerous examples of people who went way astray and were brought back home by God. And then, of course, you're going to have just a multitude of examples after Joshua as well, where the same thing happens. So you can understand Jesus's, I guess, frustration with the scribes and the Pharisees who were so upset with him for hanging out with sinners and tax collectors because he could say, hey, have you read your Bible?

Do you not realize what God has been doing all along in calling sinners to himself, in rescuing Rahabs, and calling the Ninevites to repentance, and not just concerned with the people of Israel, but actually using the people of Israel to reach out in mercy to the Gentiles who were living around them? So the scribes and the Pharisees had absolutely no excuse for not realizing that the Messiah had come not just for the people of Israel, but indeed for those who were outside of the people of Israel, as well as those who were like technically Israelites, but who lived immoral lives or were considered unclean by the majority of Israel. yeah i mean a super a super good example of this is the the woman of the city you know when jesus is like hanging out at a dinner party with a pharisee and then a prostitute a well-known prostitute comes walking in the door and you can just tell like this guy is just completely horrified yeah he's not like oh good like the sinners are repenting he's like all right if this dude was really of god he would know who this is and he would not even let her touch him it's a fairly big indictment on the exegetical skill of the pharisee

yeah yeah it is an indictment of that and and unfortunately uh it seemed to be pretty uh pretty widespread at least in the the rabbinic writings that that i looked at so i mean she's of course She's called a Gentile. She's understood to be a non-Israelite who was brought into the family of Israel. But there's a lot of cleaning up of her story that's done in some of the rabbinical writings, which would have reflected, which actually were part of the Pharisaic tradition. So anyway, I guess all of that is kind of an intro to this story. And why don't we jump into it?

Let's do it. there's a lot of there's a lot of very rich details that were that were given in the story as well so this is uh this is like you know same song second verse kind of deal because israel is at the uh the edge of the promised land as they have been before israel is sending spies in as they have before so this is a lot like numbers chapter 13 we've been here before we've been on the brink of the promised land. We have seen spies go in. We've seen spies return with a report about the land. So this is like, okay, what's going to happen this time? It's kind of that sort of situation. So we'll see what happens this time. Joshua sends two guys in as spies

secretly from Shittim, which is where they're camped, saying, go view the land, especially Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there. I'm just going to read the first few verses. And it was told the king of Jericho saying, behold, men from the sons of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land. And the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab saying, bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land. but the woman had taken the two men and hidden them and she said yes the man came to me but i did not know where they were from and it came about when it was time to shut the gate at dark

that the men went out and i don't know where the men went pursue them quickly for they will over for you will overtake them but she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof so the men pursued them on the road to the jordan to the fords and as soon as those who were pursuing them had gone out they shut the gate so we'll stop there we'll stop there for a minute um man i don't i'm not even sure where to start there's so much here but uh i guess i guess one of the things that that jumped out at me when i was when i was looking at this just in the hebrew itself there's that there's that word that adverbs secretly at the very opening joshua the son of non sent two men as spies secretly

from shatim now that that adverb can actually can modify different things here so were the spies just supposed to go secretly that seems kind of repetitive right aren't spies supposed to be secret i mean are there any is there such a thing as a non-secret spy an open spy yeah an open spy that's not really so the secretly part can't be really talking about the spies i think what So I think, and I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think what's going on here is, okay, Joshua has actually been in this situation before. Remember that Joshua and Caleb were the two spies when they were much younger who were sent in by Moses among, you know, there were 12 of them, but Joshua and Caleb were two of them. And Joshua remembers what happened last time. so you know very publicly 12 guys were sent into the promised land to spy it out and return it with

the report and that didn't go very well came back and 10 of them were like no we're gonna get tramped but we're just gonna get killed slaughtered by these people they're huge we're like grass offers compared to them so that ended very poorly so i'm thinking maybe what joshua where joshua is now he's like you know what i'm gonna send a couple guys but i'm not gonna tell anybody else so i'm gonna send the spies out but i'm gonna send them secretly and i'm gonna i'm gonna have them report back to me and tell me what what happened i'm not gonna make this a whole public spectacle like moses did so it i like i say i'm not 100 sure that's what's going on here but i suspect that is what what's happening no i mean this is just learning from a previous situation

where you're like yeah i don't really need these guys coming back giving a certain report and then having the entirety of the nation freaking out yeah spending 40 more years walking around in the wilderness yeah yeah this seems very much more like joshua personally wants to know as sort of the military leader here yeah yeah and you know that's that's what happens we we read at the end of the chapter that when the two guys do come back they they go to it doesn't say they went to israel or to the people of israel they came to joshua and related to him everything that had happened so this this seems to be kind of a a very uh secretive sort of operation joshua says hey here's what i want you to do find out everything you can about especially about jericho and come

back and report only to me what you what you find well which is what they do and uh i i just have to laugh because the the first place these guys go is to uh it's to the home of a prostitute i mean really it's like there's no record of them going anywhere else it's like okay we're gonna go into jericho where should we go first well there's the home of a prostitute let's go let's go there so that's where they end up i mean we're not told they went to a for you know they first went and got some coffee at the uh you know the the jericho starbucks uh hung out there for a while and then walked around they just go right to the home of prostitute yeah maybe that's where you got news maybe that's where everybody related to the news i guess yeah it is it is a weird story because

you would assume that they weren't supposed to go into any houses this is not very this is not very spy like like you're supposed to be like creeping around just checking things out how'd you end up in this house uh in the first place i got a couple of ideas there's there's well there's there's really just two options one you were like pretty sure that's a brothel so we can go in there that's fine they don't care they're not gonna they're not they're not gonna think anything of it or two you know i don't know someone saw you and you were getting pursued and that's the house you ran into i mean those are like the only options yeah yeah but it doesn't say that they were being pursued the only reason you might think that is that people came to that house and said

yo where's those guys at but this but this also seems more likely that they went in there and there were other people that had left there that then reported and said hey there's some guys in there and uh they're not from here right yeah got some strangers in town they're in the brothel so they go report to the king and then everything happens after there's some guys in town they might belong to that i don't know millions of guys that are outside the camp yeah right right so whatever the motivation uh this is where they this is where they end up is in the is in the house of Rahab. So, and as we were just saying, the King of Jericho finds out that these spies have come in. And so he sends word to Rahab. Now Rahab right away comes across as a pretty smart

lady. I mean, when you look at how she deals with a situation and actually, you know, she comes across as a smart lady, but also is extremely courageous. I mean, her life is on the line. If if OK, she when when the guys come from from the king and she says what she says, I don't know. I mean, yeah, I didn't I didn't know who these guys were. You know, they were here and they did their thing and they left. So it wasn't that long ago. Why don't you take off after him? You can you can catch him, you know, so she's smart.

But she's also courageous because if they if they had searched her home and found these guys, she'd be dead. i mean she basically has committed treason against against the king so she's putting her own life on the line and she's pretty smart i mean she's quick on her feet she has an answer immediately for the guys that come to her door looking for uh looking for the for the spies so she comes across right away as someone who is who is going to exercise not only bravery and intelligence but as we're going to find out in a minute. Also, she's articulate and she's, she's wised up to the situation that she is now in. And it actually is going to, as we'll see in just a minute, is going to give a beautiful confession of faith in the God of Israel. So let's go on. We'll, we'll get

to that now. So picking up here at verse eight, now, before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof. Roofs were typically flat at that time. So they're on this flat roof. And she says, of the men i know so this is the beginning of her confession it's going on for about four or five verses i know that the lord and she uses the divine name here yahweh i know that yahweh has given you the land and that the terror of you has fallen on us and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you for we have heard how the lord dried up the water of the red sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. And when we heard it, our

hearts melted, and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you. For the Lord, your God, she uses the divine name there again, for Yahweh, your God, he is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. Now, therefore, please swear to me by your Lord, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you will also deal kindly with my father's household and give me a pledge of truth and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters with all who belong to them and deliver our lives from death. So we'll stop there for a minute. It's a pretty amazing confession. Well, it's a pretty great confession. And you also figure out exactly the motivation behind that bravery uh you also figure out that these this is also how you know that the

inhabitants of this land absolutely know about israel and they not only that but they're terrified of what they believe is coming but she says that everyone's freaked out about it right uh everyone's heard everyone's courage has melted away everyone everyone's freaked out and then she's confronted with these guys and she decides that instead of oh here's some spies i better tell someone because oh the war is upon us she's like you know what this is a great opportunity for me to get on what i what i think is the winning side of this based on what i've heard right yeah she knows exactly uh which uh which which is gonna be the winning team here it's mind-blowing to me to think about how the word spread yeah i mean she so she's living in in a city in uh in jericho

and you know i don't know how many miles away from from egypt that is but it's a long way but you know word has begun to spread you have people traveling you have you have traders you have soldiers moving about here and there and what happened and remember this happened 40 years ago. But what happened, what God did to Egypt at the Red Sea for the Israelites, that became not just the talk of the town or even the talk of the region, but the talk of many lands. So word about what God did at the Red Sea had spread, become one of these just well-known divine acts that circulated among various peoples at that time. And not only that, But in a little bit closer time frame, she had also heard about what happened when they had to deal with Og and the other giants and armies that they had to face, such as Sihon.

So word of the defeat of the Israelites over the victory of the Israelites over them had spread as well. So this is actually in fulfillment. Everything that's happening, everything that Rahab says, and everything she describes is happening, like the hearts of the Canaanites melting away before Israel, is actually in fulfillment of what Israel actually sang or what Moses taught them to sing at the Red Sea. Let me read you a couple of verses from way back in Exodus. This is the Shirat Hayyam. That's the song of the sea. And this is what they sing right after they cross to the sea. Let me pick up here at, where is it at?

Okay, I'm picking up here with Exodus 15, 14. The peoples have heard, they tremble. Anguish has seized the inhabitants of Philistia. The chiefs of Eden were dismayed. The leaders of Moab, trembling, grips them. And then here's the key phrase. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. Terror and dread fall upon them.

So they sang this song way back at the crossing of the Red Sea. And not only did it describe what had happened then, it also became prophetic of what was going to happen in the future. So that same language that's used in Exodus 15 about the hearts of the Canaanites melting away and terror and fear gripping them, that's precisely what Rahab is echoing in her words to the spies in Joshua 2. So we see how there's this interplay between earlier words in the Torah and now what's happening in the book of Joshua, where that which was prophesied is actually coming to pass now. and the fact that she uses the divine name i think is also significant she doesn't say you know we've heard what the god of israel did to the egyptians and to og and to all these other people but she actually uses the divine name she knows in other words the god of which she speaks

he's not just one god in a vast pantheon or one god among a lot of different options in fact she says not only do we know what Yahweh did but the very near the very end of her of her speech she says for the Lord that is Yahweh your God he is God in heaven above and on earth beneath so we have this we have this confession of faith on the part of Rahab that the God of the Israelites is the one is the one true God not just in heaven above but on but on earth beneath as well yeah I think some of this makes sense i mean if if there's this group of people who have like escaped egypt which is crazy not to me i mean just crazy in general not to mention the crazy way in which they escaped egypt but just the fact that they were able to do it period at all is crazy then

you're like oh what hey what happened to old scion and og oh that's the same group of people that like passed through the red sea they totally wiped them out and then you say like who are these people And the question that you would ask, certainly in that time period, that you wouldn't ask now, but then you would ask, like, who's their god? Yeah, exactly. You would absolutely ask this. And then they'd be like, oh, well, their god is Yahweh. So it makes sense that that name would be floated around. And it best makes sense that if you had heard rumors of this whole thing, you're like, well, what is this god like?

Oh, he's, you know, you'd hear all kinds of crazy stuff. And maybe you'd have to figure out, like, that can't be true. but even if you just heard the truth you'd be like this this god like brings bread down from heaven he's like he appears as like a pillar of cloud and like a you know a pillar of fire so that's all heaven stuff uh he parts the red sea he makes water come out of rocks he wins battles for you this is all like heaven and earth kind of stuff it makes sense that i mean if you buy if you end up believing all this and there's lots of reasons to believe it because i I mean, cities have been wiped out at this point.

You're like, yeah, this God's legit. He's the God of heaven and of earth. And if this is all true, we're in real trouble here. If he has actually promised to give them this land, I would prefer to be a worshiper of this God as opposed to a worshiper of whatever other gods these people were worshiping. Yeah, yeah. It's a wonder that Rahab and her family are the only ones in the whole city of Jericho

who actually thought about converting believed yeah i thought about converting you know we're gonna we're gonna and this rehab isn't the only one we're gonna come uh just in just a few chapters we're gonna come come across a a whole group of people who fake the israelites into thinking that they're from like a way distant country when they actually like live right there in the land but i mean they've wised up too they're just like rehab they've heard everything that's happening like yeah we need to make we need to make peace treaty with these people or we're dead so they they did the they did the same thing so word is spreading and you can see then we talked about this uh several different times that god was concerned and well not just god but moses was

concerned about god's reputation right he said i don't want you to wipe out all these people because you know what's going to happen when other peoples hear of what you did uh then your name is going to lose all all power all significance uh your reputation is going to suffer because of this so moses was right you know the the word about yahweh the reputation of yahweh was spreading and it was having a it was having an impact both positive as well as negative on those who heard what kind of god he was okay so let's see what happens after she after she says this they they make a they make a deal basically the spies say okay what here is what's going to happen and we we're going to we're going to put our life on the line for you because you have put your life on the

line for us so if you don't tell anybody about what we've done then here's what we'll do for you when we attack the city. So I want you to put this, it's called a cord of scarlet thread in the window. So that's going to be like the neon sign on your house for all the Israelite warriors to see that's going to say, don't enter this house. Don't attack this house. Everybody who's inside this house is to be spared. So she's supposed to get her mom and her dad and her her siblings and everybody that's kind of part of her extended family you know they didn't think in terms of like nuclear families back there they you know there was a wider family everybody was supposed to come into the one house close the doors put this scarlet cord on the

outside and wait until the city was was taken before anybody left the house so if you do that the spies say then you're going to be okay no harm is going to befall you and if any harm does befall anybody in your family then we're going to shed our own blood as a result of that so they are putting their own their own life on the line so they basically make this deal and she says all right according to your words so be it and she lets them down through the window and they sneak away and go hide they like go the opposite direction of what the the pursuers would have gone they hide out for three days in the hill country before they go back to go back to joshua so there's a couple of a couple of uh details here that i think are worth focusing on just for

just for a minute in the time that we have left one is this this image of the cord of scarlet thread that's in the window you might not realize that we've actually seen this word scarlet many many times uh shani is the hebrew word there and it's used multiple times especially in the book of Exodus and Leviticus to describe, interestingly, to describe one of the many colors that is dyed into the fabrics of the tabernacle and the curtains in the tabernacle and even the vestments that are worn by the high priest. So this was a dye that was evidently often used in the ancient world to mark things, whether it's just regular clothing or sacred tents or sacred clothing.

So this becomes a marker for the attackers, for the Israelite soldiers. When they see this, they know that this is the house that is to be spared. And one more little Hebrew tidbit here that I didn't know about until this morning. I just came upon it. The word for cord that's used there, this cord of scarlet thread, the Hebrew word is tikvah. But this is the only place in the Old Testament where tikvah, which is translated here as cord, is translated that way. Everywhere else it means hope.

It's kind of interesting there. So it could be that it's actually two different words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings. Or it could be that this one word, tikvah, has actually two different meanings that are some way joined together. whatever's going on whatever actually like linguistically is happening there with that word there's no doubt in my own mind anyway that his choice of using that word is an indication of kind of an underlying meaning that because this cord is also the hope that that Rahab has this is going to be the the hope of her redemption the hope of her family's uh being spared when the when the city's attack so this kind of interesting thing that of course you can't see in the english

translation but that's kind of going on in the hebrew where tikvah means both cord as well as as well as hope yeah there's this there's this pretty awesome tie-in to this visually of you know as the as the angel of the lord moves through egypt uh the children of israel are spared as they have you know the blood of a lamb over the door and you will see this happen where there is scarlet marking this house for the Israelites to pass over. And so passing over the scarlet marked house is not a foreign thought to the Israelites. I mean, they weren't, the Israelites now that are present there

weren't there for that, but they know about it. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking that too. There is, there's kind of a, there's a Passover theme that you have because this is, you have an upcoming destruction and you have many people being killed, but some being spared. Well, how are they spared? Well, it's because they're behind locked doors. They're not supposed to go out.

And as you say, they're marked both by something that's scarlet color, whether it's a cord or whether it's the blood of the Passover lamb. So you can see, I think this is a great example of what I like to call the layering of Scripture, where you have this kind of foundational. In this particular case, you have this foundational Passover imagery, and then layered on top of that, now you have what's happening in Joshua. You're going to have more of this as the scriptures go on. But this is how later scriptures will co-opt the language and imagery of earlier stories and adapt it to a new context with the understanding that when you read, for instance, Joshua 2, you're going to read that with one ear listening also to Exodus chapter 12, the story of the Passover. so this just one example among literally thousands of examples in the scriptures where you have this kind of interplay between a couple of couple of different narratives yeah and that's it man that is chapter two and that is 40 minutes so hey man we're doing we're doing one chapter an episode

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