Joshua 2:16

She said to them, “Go in the hills and hide or the pursuers will find you. Hide there for three days until the pursuers have returned. Then go on your way.”

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In The King James Version

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

In Context

15So she let them down out through the window using a rope. The house in which she lived was built into the wall of the city.

17The men said to her, “We will be not be bound to the promises of the oath you made us swear to, if you do not do this.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:22They left and went up into the hills and they stayed there three days until their pursuers returned. The pursuers searched all along the road and found nothing.

1 Samuel 23:29David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi.

James 2:25In the same way also, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away by another road?

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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