So that’s why the spies selected Rahab’s house! It was built on the wall of Jericho! Over and out!
Rahab has found a way to spare the lives of the two spies. Now how will the spies spare Rahab? After all, she was a cursed Canaanite. And to complicate things further, “her house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall” (Jos 2:15). But there it was, her bold testimony in repudiating the false gods of her people and embracing the God of Israel: “the Lord [Jehovah] your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath” (v 11). She had shown the Israelites kindness; what could they do but show the kindness of Jehovah back to her? And so they promised, or rather swore an oath, that she and her family would be spared on two conditions. First, that the “line of scarlet cord” was exposed when they returned, hanging out the window of her house on the wall. Second, that she had accomplished her evangelistic efforts to “bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home” (v 18). The “whosoever outs” would perish; the “whosoever ins” would be safe (see v 19). Who couldn’t preach the gospel from that! Now although the words of God I am about to quote were written in the days of Jeremiah, I can’t think of a better verse for the redeemed Rahab to hang in her new home in Israel: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord [Jehovah], thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jer 29:11). Wonder of wonders, the word “hope” in this verse (Heb, tiqvah) is the same word used in Joshua 2:18 for the scarlet cord! But Rahab’s hope was not in a rope. Her hope was in the Lord, for “By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe” (Heb 11:31) because, of course, she DID believe. Do you believe God’s Word?