King James Version
Joshua 2:6 in the King James Version says “But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order ...” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.”
Joshua 2:6 · KJV
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“But she had brought them up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“which she had laid in order”
H6186to set in a row, i.e., arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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