Joshua 2:20

and if you declare this—our matter, then we have been acquitted from your oath which you have caused us to swear.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

In Context

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;

21And she says, “According to your words, so it [is]”; and she sends them away, and they go; and she binds the scarlet line to the window.

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:13A busybody is revealing secret counsel, || And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

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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