Joshua 2:21

Rahab said, “I agree to do what you say.” So they climbed down the rope and left. And she left the red cord tied in the window.

Translation for Translators

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 what we are planning to do, we are not required to do what we have vowed to do.”

22When the two men left the city, they went up into the hills. They stayed there for three days, while the men who had been sent by the king continued to search for them. They searched all along the road, but they did not find the two men. So they returned to the city.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:18You must tie this red cord in the window that has the rope by which we will climb down. You must let the cord hang there. And you must bring your father and your mother and your brothers and all the others in your family inside the house. Then, when our army enters your land, we will see the cord, and we will not kill the people in your house.

John 2:5Then Jesus’ mother said to 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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