hid them] Hebr. hid him;ie. each of them apart; to wit, as soon as she knew that they were discovered to the king. but I wist not] This (as some think) was not a lye, but the concealing of a truth not necessarily to be discovered: for being an inne-keeper, it may be others lodged in her house that night, and were gone, of whom she speaketh in truth, and concealeth these spies in faith and charity; as it is Hebrews 11:31. But if it were a lye, or aequivocation, her example is no precedent, being a new convert whose faith God accepted, and pardoned her sin. So Exodus 1:19.