Joshua 2:16
And she said to them, Get you to the mountain lest the pursuers come upon you. And hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned, and afterward ye may go your way.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17And the men said to her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou have made us to swear.
Cross References
Joshua 2:22And they went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned. And the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but did not find them.
1 Samuel 23:29And David went up from there, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.
James 2:25And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot made righteous from works, having received the agents, and having sent them out another way?
Matthew Henry on Joshua 2:9-22
8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; 9 And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard these… Read the whole commentary →