Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
"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]