They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.
We have here the safe return of the spies Joshua had sent, and the great encouragement they brought with them to Israel to proceed in their descent upon Canaan. Had they been disposed to discourage the people, as the evil spies did that Moses sent, they might have told them what they had observed of the height and strength of the walls of Jericho, and...
Commenting on Joshua 2:22-24
And they went, and came unto the mountain,.... Rahab had directed them to, the mountain Quarantania; see Gill on Jos 2:16, and abode there three days; being, no doubt, supplied with food by Rahab; and it might not be three wholly, but one whole day and part of the other two: until the pursuers were returned; to the city of Jericho, as might reasonably be...
Jos 2:22 The spies remained three days in the mountains, till the officers returned to the town, after searching for them the whole way in vain. The mountains referred to are probably the range on the northern side of Jericho, which afterwards received the name of Quarantana (Arab.