According to the book of Joshua, Rahab lived on the wall of Jericho. Rahab and her family were saved because she helped the spies escape the city. The walls of Jericho fell down on the seventh day when the children of Israel walked around the wall. If she lived on the wall that fell, how did she and her family survive??
2006-06-28 15:54:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
she didnt actually live on the wall she lived next to the wall. she put out a scarlet cord so they would know not to attack her house
2006-06-28 15:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rahab's house was not actually "on top" of the wall, but rather "next" to the wall. It is a bad translation if you will and doesn't get the meaning across. For example in English where is your house located? " On 315 Washington St." You are not actually "on" the street but the street runs next to it. So when we read ancient texts and they say "on the forum" "on the wall" "on the gate" "on the market" the location is next to that location.
Jericho's walls, of the clay brick variety, were several meters thick with houses along the inside. These houses would belong to the lower classes and less affluent, because they are the least protected and would be the farthest from the center of the city where everything was located. The collapse of Jericho's walls is not going to be catastrophic to the houses "on the wall" as long as the houses are not attached directly to the wall. We do not know how the walls fell, only that they fell, and they fell in such a way that they did not smash Rehab's house. Given what I said above, it is completely possible that the falling of the walls didn't have to crush the house, so we can take the word of scripture on that occurrence.
2006-07-06 00:33:50 · answer #2 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two spies went in and saved her and her family before the walls came down.
2006-06-28 22:59:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I realy think that he is looking for an answer noi a bunch of jiberish what they are telling you is that if you have faith in god you can jump off a 40' wall and not get hurt hummmmmmm
2006-06-28 23:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joshua 2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
They provided a way of escape.
2006-06-28 23:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She did not live on the wall. She lived in a house. She hid them in her house until the people hunting them passed by and them she let them down by a rope.
2006-06-28 22:58:25 · answer #6 · answered by ladysodivine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God who brought the walls down (inward no less) protected her probably by keeping her area intact.
2006-06-28 23:01:33 · answer #7 · answered by beek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She put a red cloth outside side her home and her home was not destroyed because of her help and the cloth.
2006-06-28 23:00:02 · answer #8 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joshua saved her and her household.
2006-06-28 22:58:35 · answer #9 · answered by bjn5650 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god protected her because she obeyed and put out a red rope..
2006-06-28 22:58:00 · answer #10 · answered by anonymityfactor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋