The men pursued after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
"The stalks of flax   ..."  (Joshua 2:6) reveal several things: (1) The time of the year was about March or April, that being the time when the flax was ready to harvest.[18]  (2) It also meant that the Jordan was flooding  (Joshua 3:15), as it always did at harvest time.  (3) Likewise, there is a glimpse here of Rahab's cultivation and processing of flax, indicating that that industry was at least one source of the woman's livelihood.  The flax industry dates from "the earliest times in Palestine."[19]