Joshua 2:21

And she said—According to your words, so, shall it be. Thus sent she them away and they departed,—and she bound the crimson cord in the window.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

20Or, if thou utter this our business, then shall we be free from this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

22And they went and came into the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers had returned,—so the pursuers, made search, throughout all the way, but found them not.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:18Lo! when we are coming into the land, this cord of crimson thread, must thou bind in the window by which thou didst let us down, and, thy father and thy mother and thy brethren and all the household of thy father, must thou gather together unto thee unto the house.

John 2:5His mother saith unto them who are ministering—Whatsoever he may say to you, do!

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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