Joshua 2:18

behold, we are coming into the land, bind this line of scarlet thread to the window by which you have caused us to go down, and gather your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all the house of your father to you, to the house;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.

In Context

17And the men say to her, “We are acquitted of this, your oath, which you have caused us to swear:

19and it has been, anyone who goes out from the doors of your house outside, his blood [is] on his head, and we are innocent; and anyone who is with you in the house, his blood [is] on our head, if a hand is on him;

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.

Exodus 12:13And the blood has become a sign for you on the houses where you [are], and I have seen the blood, and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My striking in the land of Egypt.

Numbers 4:8and they have spread a garment of scarlet over them, and have covered it with a covering of tachash skin, and have placed its poles,

Joshua 2:12And now, please swear to me by YHWH—because I have done kindness with you—that you have done, even you, kindness with the house of my father, and have given a true token to me,

Joshua 6:23And the young men, those spying, go in and bring out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all whom she has; indeed, they have brought out all her relatives, and place them at the outside of the camp of Israel.

Esther 8:6for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that finds my people? And how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my family?”

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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