Joshua 2:20

But remember, if you breathe a word about our errand, we will not be bound by the oath you have made us swear.”

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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

19Anyone who crosses the door of your house into the street, their blood be on their own head, we are not to blame. But if a hand is laid on anyone inside the house, then that person’s blood be on our head!

21“As you say,” answered the woman, “so be it.” So away they went, while she tied the scarlet cord to the window.

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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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