Joshua 2:15

They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

In Context

14That you will save my father and mother, my brethren end sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.

16Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

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Cross References

Joshua 6:20So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forth- with fell down: and every man went up by the place that was over against him: s and they took the city,

Acts 9:25But the disciples taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

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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