SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:25
Mas Josué dio la vida a Rahab la ramera, y a la casa de su padre, y a todo lo que ella tenía; y habitó ella entre los israelitas hasta hoy; por cuanto escondió los mensajeros que Josué envió a reconocer a Jericó.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 6:25
Verse 25. And she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day] This is one proof that the book was written in the time to which it is commonly referred; and certainly might have been done by the hand of Joshua himself, though doubtless many marginal notes may have since crept into the text, which, to superficial observers, give it the appearance of having been written after the days of Joshua. See the preface to this book.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive , etc.] From perishing by the sword, as the rest of the inhabitants did. Kimchi says, some interpret it of his giving her food, and an inheritance by which she might live; and Josephus intimates the same: he says, he gave her fields, and had her in great honour and esteem; and it is the notion of some Jewish writers, that he took her to wife, and that this is meant by saving her alive; which sense Kimchi disapproves of, as being foreign; besides, it was not Joshua, but Salmon, a prince in Israel, that married her, ( Matthew 1:5); and her father’s household, and all she had ; that is, he saved alive all her relations, and it may be her cattle, if she had any; and those of her kindred also, as their sheep, oxen, and asses, when those of others were killed, ( Joshua 6:21). Some also understand this of intermarriages of principal persons in Israel with some of her father’s fairly; but it only signifies that their lives were spared, when the whole city was destroyed with the edge of the sword: and she dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day ; which may be meant either personally of Rahab, who was living and dwelt in the land of Canaan, when this history was written; and serves to strengthen the opinion that Joshua was the writer of it, and to explain the meaning of the phrase “unto this day”, elsewhere used in this book; and to remove any objection from it against his being the author of it; or else of her dwelling there in her posterity, and so she might dwell in it unto the times of the Messiah, who sprang from her, ( Matthew 1:5); because she hid the messengers which Joshua, sent to spy out Jericho ; this was the reason of her and her father’s family being saved alive; (see Gill on “ Joshua 6:17”).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-27 - Jericho was to be a solemn and awful sacrifice to the justice of God upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So He appoints from whom, as creatures, they received their lives, and to whom, a sinners, they had forfeited them. Rahab perished not with them tha believed not, Heb 11:31. All her kindred were saved with her; thu faith in Christ brings salvation to the house, Ac 16:31. She, and the with her, were plucked as brands from the burning. With Rahab, or with the men of Jericho; our portion must be assigned, as we posses of disregard the sign of salvation; even faith in Christ, which worketh by love. Let us remember what depends upon our choice, and let us choos accordingly. God shows the weight of a Divine curse; where it rest there is no getting from under it; for it brings ruin without remedy __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואת 853 רחב 7343 הזונה 2181 ואת 853 בית 1004 אביה 1 ואת 853 כל 3605 אשׁר 834 לה החיה 2421 יהושׁע 3091 ותשׁב 3427 בקרב 7130 ישׂראל 3478 עד 5704 היום 3117 הזה 2088 כי 3588 החביאה 2244 את 853 המלאכים 4397 אשׁר 834 שׁלח 7971 יהושׁע 3091 לרגל 7270 את 853 יריחו׃ 3405
