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Purification Before Integration
Commentators explain that placing Rahab's family 'without the camp' was not a punishment but a necessary step of purification. John Calvin argues this temporary separation made them aware of their past pagan life and prepared them for holiness before joining God's holy people. It was a transitional phase leading to their full inclusion in Israel.
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Joshua
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Albert Barnes
On Joshua 6:23
18th Century
Theologian
The part of the wall adjoining Rahab’s house had not fallen along with the rest. Rahab and all that she had, that is, the persons belongin…
Charles Ellicott
On Joshua 6:23
19th Century
Bishop
And left them. —Literally, caused them to rest.
John Calvin
On Joshua 6:23
16th Century
Theologian
And the young men that were spies went in, etc., God, undoubtedly, wished those to be safe whose minds he inclined in this way to embrace …
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John Gill
On Joshua 6:23
17th Century
Pastor
And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out
Rahab
Not only went into t…
Matthew Henry
On Joshua 6:17–27
17th Century
Minister
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…