Rahab's House Essay

Rahab’s house was built on top of the walls of Jericho, on the north side by the city gates. “Her roof was almost level with the ramparts, and with a stairway leading up to a flat roof that appears to be a continuation of the wall.” According to the book All The Women of The Bible. It had high fortified walls that were built around the city for protection. The walls were made of mud brick. There were two fortified walls encircling the city. Some archeologist say the walls were about forty feet tall. City walls were also meant to keep out intruders. The walls helped to keep the tribes of Shepherds out who brought their sheep around to graze the fields. Where Rahab’s house was located, she could freely move about in and out of the city. Jericho was a secure place because the king and the elders sat at the gates and the officers walked the city everyday. Rahab shows this when she says she snuck the spies out of her window instead of going out of the gate.(KJV Bible) The kings acted like city governors and mayor’s that you see today. They would judge the affairs of the people in the city. The city gates were where the life of the town took place. People would go around the gates when they had celebrations or it was where the men and women went to …show more content…
This is a great definition of Faith. The word that is equal to faith in the Old Testament is trust. In the Wycliffe Bible Dictionary it states that “faith furnishes us with a foundation on which our hopes can securely rest, and with a conviction that those things exist which are not earthly or temporal, and which, we cannot see.” Webster's New World College Dictionary defines faith as "unquestioning belief that does not require proof or evidence; unquestioning belief in God.” This shows that when we have faith or hope can rest. Rahab could rest because she had faith in the spies. She had faith in God and that He would save