This is probably why rahab had bundles of flax on her roof.
Stalks of flax on roof.
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.
After retting the fibers are cleaned and then bleached in the sun.
The flax was in bloom the king james version bolled.
The above hebrew words are applied 1 to the plant.
The scientific name of flax is linum usitatissimum.
The cut flax was tied and set up to dry then soaked in water for five to fifteen days to loosen the fibers after which the fibers were drawn over the edge of a stone or board and beaten with a wooden mallet and finally refined by combing imagine stalks of flax lying all over the roof of her house.
That is the places where people used to pass over jordan whether by boats or bridges.
Fords or passages.
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.
The use of flax in ancient canaan is confirmed by its mention in the famous gezer calendar variously dated between the eleventh and ninth centuries b c.
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.
Judges 15 14 view whole chapter see verse in context.
3 to the fine fibers used for lighting.
Flaks pesheth also pishtah.
However 1 the israelites had not left and 2 she knew exactly where they were.
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.
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.
How stalks and flax changed everything series.
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.
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.
For the barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled.
2 the stalks of flax literally flax of the tree put on the roof to dry.
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.
Rahab day 2 christy fay joshua 2.
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.
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