Joshua 2:20

But if you say anything about our business here, then we will be free from the oath you have made us take.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

In Context

19Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

21And she said, Let it be as you say. Then she sent them away, and they went; and she put the bright red cord in the window.

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:13He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.

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 →

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