Joshua 2:17
And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
In Context
16Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.
18And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear:
Cross References
Genesis 24:8But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath; only bring not my son back thither again.
Leviticus 19:11You shall not steal. You shall not lie, neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.
Joshua 2:20Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.
2 Samuel 21:7And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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 →