Yosua 2:3
Konteks2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: 1 “Turn over 2 the men who came to you 3 – the ones who came to your house 4 – for they have come to spy on the whole land!”
Yosua 8:3
Konteks8:3 Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. 5 Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.
[2:3] 1 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
[2:3] 3 tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, bo’ ’el) probably has sexual connotations here, as it often does elsewhere when a man “comes to” a woman. If so, the phrase could be translated “your clients.” The instructions reflect Rahab’s perspective as to the identity of the men.
[2:3] 4 tn The words “the ones who came to your house” (Heb “who came to your house”) may be a euphemistic scribal addition designed to blur the sexual connotation of the preceding words.
[8:3] 5 tn “And Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up [against] Ai.”