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sent: or, had sent
Shittim: Num 25:1, Num 33:49
to spy secretly: Num 13:2, Num 13:17-21; Jdg 18:2, Jdg 18:14, Jdg 18:17; Mat 10:16; Eph 5:5
even Jericho: Jos 5:10, Jos 6:1-24
harlot's house: Though the word zonah generally denotes a prostitute, yet many very learned men are of opinion that it should be here rendered an innkeeper or hostess, from zoon, to furnish or provide food. In this sense it was understood by the Targumist, who renders it, ittetha pundekeetha, "a woman, a tavern-keeper," and so St. Chrysostome, in his second sermon on Repentance, calls her πανδοκευτρια. The Greek πορνη, by which the LXX render it, and which is adopted by the Apostles, is derived from περναω, to sell, and is also supposed to denote a tavern keeper. Among the ancients, women generally kept houses of entertainment. Herodotus says, "Among the Egyptians, the women carry on all commercial concerns, and keep taverns, while the men continue at home and weave." The same custom prevailed among the Greeks. Jos 6:17, Jos 6:25; Mat 1:5, Rachab, Jos 21:31; Heb 11:31; Jam 2:25
lodged: Heb. lay