Joshua 2:21

“I agree—may it be as you say,” she replied. She sent them off, and hung a scarlet cord in the window.

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In The King James Version

And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

In Context

20But if you tell anyone about this then we will be freed from the promise you made us swear.”

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.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:18unless when we enter this land, you hang a scarlet cord in the window through which you lowered us. You must gather together in the house your father and mother and brothers—all the family.

John 2:5His mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

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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