V. 31.— By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. The next example is that of Rahab. She told the spies that she knew that the Lord had given them the land; she had heard of His drying up the sea, and declared her faith in the God of Israel as God in heaven above and in the earth beneath; and, under this conviction, she received the spies and concealed them, and did not perish with the unbelieving Canaanites; who, although so greatly alarmed by all they had heard of the Israelites, that they fainted because of them, Joshua 2:24, still madly persisted in resisting them, and brought on themselves swift destruction.