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40 Years in the Desert then a Night in the Brothel.

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. Joshua 2:1

Two spies, sent by the new leader Joshua, tool into Jerico for a friendly visit and find themselves at Rahab's Comfort Inn. How cozy. Soon afterward, that very night in fact, word reaches the king that there are two Jewish spies at Rahab's place. What? Who told him? How did they know that they were spies? How did the word travel so fast? I scratched my balding head trying to figure out the puzzling answers.

After my reading of this passage in Joshua this morning I quipped the above questions to my lovely wife, who was on the opposite sofa in our living room, reading her Bible. Without batting an eye she says, "Well of course the news reached the king really fast. Don't you think that because the people were scared spitless that they saw these two lugs enter the brothel? The Israeli army was poised for an attack and out of nowhere come two 'strangers' into town to visit Rahab's Comfort Inn. It would be the obvious thing to do, to run and tell the king of their 'evil intentions'. Don't you think?"

I knew that!


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