and it happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; where the men went I don't know: pursue after them quickly; for you will overtake them.
Most of the recent versions supply in this chapter at appropriate places the pluperfect tenses which are missing in the Hebrew (due to the deficiency of that language in those days) translating  Joshua 2:6, for example, thus: "The woman had brought them up on the roof, etc."  This necessity is well understood by translators.  Holmes professed ignorance of this, however, and stated that,  "Joshua 2:15-17 should be omitted.  We can hardly think of the conversation being continued between Rahab at the window and the spies on the ground outside the wall!"[16]  The use of the pluperfect in such verses clears up everything.