How stalks and flax changed everything series.
Stalks of flax on roof.
This is probably why rahab had bundles of flax on her roof.
Fords or passages.
Flaks pesheth also pishtah.
But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax which she had spread out upon the roof.
New american standard 1977 but she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
Rahab day 2 christy fay joshua 2.
Take your everyday ordinary life your sleeping eating going to work and walking around life and place it before god as an offering romans 12 1 msg.
It was probably with the flax stalks recently cut compare exodus 9 31 note and laid out on the house roof to dry that rahab hid the spies.
3 to the fine fibers used for lighting.
After retting the fibers are cleaned and then bleached in the sun.
Up to the roof in those countries the roofs of the houses were made quite flat and it is probable it might be customary to lay the stalks of flax upon them that they might be dried by the heat of the sun.
That is the places where people used to pass over jordan whether by boats or bridges.
2 the stalks of flax literally flax of the tree put on the roof to dry.
However 1 the israelites had not left and 2 she knew exactly where they were.
So here s what i want you to do god helping you.
After rahab hid the israelite spies on her roof among the stalks of flax joshua 2 6 she told the messengers of the king of jericho who were pursuing the israelites that the men in question had already left and exactly where they went she did not know 2 4 5.
The gate of the city to prevent the escape of the spies.
Judges 15 14 view whole chapter see verse in context.
One of the common forms of retting is allowing the cut stalks of flax to remain in the dew until the fiber containing layers separate from the stem.
Joshua 2 6 view whole chapter see verse in context 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.
The above hebrew words are applied 1 to the plant.
For the barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled.
Stalks of flax literally the carded fibres of the tree the flax in palestine grew to more than three feet in height with a stalk as thick as a cane.
And the flax and the barley was smitten.
Reclaimed uncovering your worth week 3.
King james 2000 bible.
The flax was in bloom the king james version bolled.
These stalks of flax were stems about 3 feet long which had been soaked in water would have been laid out in short piles on the roof to dry.