Joshua 2:16

“Run to the hills,” she told them. “That way those searching for you won't find you. Stay there three days until they've gone home, and then you can be on your way.”

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In The King James Version

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

In Context

15Then she lowered them down by a rope through the window since the house where she lived was built into the outside of the city wall.

17The men had told her, “We will be freed from the promise you made us swear,

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Cross References

Joshua 2:22They went up into the hill country and stayed there three days. The men searching for them looked all along the road, but couldn't find them, so they returned home.

1 Samuel 23:29Then David left and went to live in the strongholds of En-gedi.

James 2:25In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute made right by what she did when she looked after the messengers and then sent them away by a different road?

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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