Thematic Bible
Joshua 2:1 (show verse)
After this, Nun's son Joshua sent two men from the Acacia groves as undercover scouts. He told them, "Go and look over the land. Pay special attention to Jericho." So they went out, came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua 2:2 (show verse)
Then the king of Jericho was told, "Look! Israeli men arrived tonight to scout out the land."
Joshua 2:3 (show verse)
So the king of Jericho sent for Rahab and ordered her, "Bring out the men who came to visit you and lodged in your house, because they've come to scout out the entire land."
Joshua 2:4 (show verse)
Now the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she replied, "The men really did come to me, but I didn't know from where they came.
Joshua 2:5 (show verse)
At dusk, when it was time to close the city gates, the men left. I don't know where the men went. Go after them quickly, and you might overtake them."
Joshua 2:6 (show verse)
But she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them among stalks of flax that she had laid out in order on the roof.
Joshua 2:7 (show verse)
So the men pursued them along the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as the search party had left, they shut the city gate after them.
Joshua 2:8 (show verse)
Before the scouts had lain down, she went up to them on the roof
Joshua 2:9 (show verse)
"I'm really convinced that the LORD has given you the land," she said, "because we're overwhelmed with fear of you. All the other inhabitants of the land are demoralized at your presence,
Joshua 2:10 (show verse)
because we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Reed Sea right in front of you as you were coming out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan River to Sihon and Og whom you completely destroyed.
Joshua 2:11 (show verse)
When we heard these reports, we all became terrified and discouraged because of you, for the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath.
Joshua 2:12 (show verse)
Now therefore, since I've treated you so kindly, please swear in the name of the LORD that you'll also be kind to my father's household by giving me this sure sign:
Joshua 2:13 (show verse)
Spare my father, my mother, and my brothers and sisters, along with everyone who belongs with them so we won't be killed."
Joshua 2:14 (show verse)
So the men told her, "Our life for yours even to death if you don't betray this mission of ours. Then when the LORD gives us this land, we'll treat you graciously and faithfully."
Joshua 2:15 (show verse)
So she let them down by a rope through the window, since her house was built into the town wall where she lived.
Joshua 2:16 (show verse)
She told them, "Go out to the hill country, so the search party won't find you, and hide for three days. After that, you may go on your own way."
Joshua 2:17 (show verse)
The men replied, "We'll be free from our commitment to you to which you've obligated us
Joshua 2:18 (show verse)
when we invade the land, if you don't tie this rope made with red cords in the window through which you let us down, and if you don't gather your father, your mother, your brothers, and all of the rest of your father's household into your house.
Joshua 2:19 (show verse)
Everyone who leaves through the doors of your house into the street will be responsible for his own death, but we'll be responsible for anyone who remains with you in the house if even so much as a hand is laid on him.
Joshua 2:20 (show verse)
But if you report this incident, we'll be free from the oath to which you've made us swear."
Joshua 2:21 (show verse)
"Since you put it that way," she replied, "I agree." After she sent them on their way and they had left, she tied the red cord in the window.
Joshua 2:22 (show verse)
The scouts left for the hill country and remained there for three days until the search party returned. The search party searched the entire road, but was unable to find them.
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Joshua 2:23 (show verse)
Later, the two men returned from the hill country, crossed over the Jordan River, approached Nun's son Joshua, and told him everything that had happened to them.
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Joshua 2:24 (show verse)
They reported to Joshua, "The LORD really has given the entire land into our control. The inhabitants of the land have melted away right in front of us!"