The woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know whence they were:
"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]