Even to this day - These words are rightly noted as implying that the narrative was written not long after the occurrences which it records.…

And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive. —“By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not” (…

And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive
From perishing by the sword, as the rest of the inhabitants did. Kimchi says…

Jericho was to be a solemn and dreadful sacrifice to God's justice, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So God decreed, from wh…