Joshua 2
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Rahab and the Spies
1Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men out from Shittim # Nu 25:1 to spy, saying, “Go see the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab. # Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25 They spent the night there.
2The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of Israel came here tonight to spy out the land.” 3So the king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab, “Bring out the men who came to you, who have entered your house, for they came to spy out the whole land.”
4Now the woman had taken the two men and had hidden them. # 2Sa 17:19–20 She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. 5The men went out when it was time to shut the gate at dark. I do not know where the men went. Chase after them quickly, for you can overtake them.” 6Yet she had brought them up to the roof. She hid them in the stalks of flax that she had spread out on the roof. # 2Sa 17:19 7So the men chased after them on the road to the Jordan as far as the fords. # Jdg 3:28 They shut the gate as soon as the pursuers went out after them.
8Before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to them on the roof. 9She said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, for dread from you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land melt in terror before you. # Ex 23:27; Dt 2:25 10For we heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, # Nu 21:21–35 the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. 11Our hearts melted when we heard these things, and no man had any breath in him because of you, # Jos 5:1 for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below. # Dt 4:39
12“So now, since I have acted faithfully toward you, please swear to me by the Lord that you will also act faithfully toward my father’s house. # Jos 2:18 Please give me a firm pledge 13that you will spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all whom they own, and that you will deliver our lives from death.”
14The men said to her, “Our lives for yours; if you do not report us, then when the Lord gives us the land, we will act faithfully and kindly with you.” # Ge 24:49; Jdg 1:24–25
15Then Rahab lowered them by a rope through the window, # Ac 9:25; 2Co 11:33 for her home was set into the wall where she lived. 16She said to them, “Go to the hill country so that the pursuers do not find you. Hide there three days until the pursuers return. After that, you can go on your way.”
17The men said to her, “We will be guiltless concerning this oath that you have made us swear. 18Behold, when we come into the land, you tie this red cord to the window through which you let us down. You must bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all who belong to your father’s household into your home. # Jos 6:23 19Anyone who comes out of the doors of your house into the street is responsible for his own blood, and we will be innocent. Yet for anyone who stays with you inside the house, we are responsible for his blood if someone should lay a hand on him. 20But if you tell about this business of ours, then we will be released from the oath that you have made us swear.”
21She said, “Let it be so, according to your words.”
Then she sent them off, and they departed. Then she tied the red cord in the window.
22They went and came to the hill country. They stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had sought them all along the way but had not found them. 23So the two men returned. They descended from the hill country. They crossed the river, came to Joshua son of Nun, and told him all that they had discovered. 24They said to Joshua, “The Lord has surely given the whole land into our hands! # Ex 23:31 Indeed, all the inhabitants of the land melt in terror before us.”
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