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And with two spies of this famous people, of this famous God, standing before her, Rahab appealed for mercy: They were moving toward the land they believed their God had promised them. The mighty nation was now advancing toward them, no longer circling the wilderness. The inhabitants of the land of Canaan, and the city of Jericho, and the family of Rahab did hear the report and tremble in fear. And now they had been wandering in the wilderness for a generation.Īs their forty years of wilderness wandering drew to a close, though, Moses reported that their God had said to him, “This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you” (Deuteronomy 2:25). And the nation indeed did come to their border, but then strangely turned away. The Canaanites, including Jericho, trembled to think that such a people, with such a God, would soon come to take their land. all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.īecause of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone. And when the Egyptians came in after them, the waters rushed back in and drowned the army.Īfter their remarkable rescue, Yahweh’s people had sung about the report going out, and the fame of their God - the report Rahab, her family, and her city had heard: They found themselves backed up against the sea, with Egyptian chariots bearing down on them, when, so it was reported, the nation’s God parted the sea. The people had left, moving eastward, and Pharaoh pursued with his army. Forty years ago, the first report had sounded about their remarkable exit from Egypt. Long had she heard of this mighty people biding its time in the wilderness - a nation of hundreds of thousands, once slaves in Egypt, wandering in the regions south of Jericho, waiting for a homeland. Two strangers had come to lodge at her inn, and now she realized who they were, and what their presence in Jericho meant. The very thing Rahab and her family had feared all her life was happening. We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt.

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