Joshua 2

1Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.Cross-references: Num 13:2 · Num 13:17 · Num 25:1 · Num 33:49 · Josh 3:1 · Josh 5:10 · +10 more

2The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”Cross-references: Ps 127:1 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 43:13 · Dan 4:35

3Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”Cross-references: Gen 38:24 · Gen 42:9 · Gen 42:31 · Lev 24:14 · Josh 10:23 · 2Sam 10:3 · +5 more

4The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.Cross-references: Ex 1:19 · 2Sam 16:18 · 2Sam 17:19 · 2Ki 6:19

5About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”Cross-references: Josh 2:7 · Neh 13:19 · Isa 60:11 · Jer 50:20 · Ezek 47:1 · Ezek 47:12 · +2 more

6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.Cross-references: Ex 1:15 · Ex 2:2 · Deut 22:8 · Josh 2:8 · 2Sam 11:2 · 2Sam 17:19 · +8 more

7The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.Cross-references: Josh 2:5 · Judg 3:28 · Judg 12:5 · Acts 5:23

8Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.

9She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.Cross-references: Gen 13:14 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 35:5 · Ex 3:6 · Ex 15:15 · Ex 18:11 · +20 more

10For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.Cross-references: Ex 14:21 · Ex 15:14 · Num 21:21 · Num 23:22 · Deut 2:30 · Josh 4:24

11As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.Cross-references: Ex 15:14 · Deut 1:28 · Deut 4:39 · Deut 20:8 · Josh 5:1 · Josh 7:5 · +12 more

12Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;Cross-references: Gen 24:3 · Gen 24:9 · Ex 12:13 · Josh 2:13 · Josh 2:18 · Josh 9:15 · +13 more

13and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

14The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”Cross-references: Gen 24:49 · Num 10:29 · Josh 6:17 · Josh 6:25 · Judg 1:24 · 1Sam 20:8 · +4 more

15Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.Cross-references: Josh 6:20 · 1Sam 19:12 · Acts 9:25 · 2Cor 11:33

16She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”Cross-references: Josh 2:22 · 1Sam 23:14 · 1Sam 23:29 · Ps 11:1 · James 2:25

17The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.Cross-references: Gen 24:3 · Ex 20:7 · Lev 19:11 · Num 30:2 · Josh 2:20 · 2Sam 21:1 · +1 more

18Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.Cross-references: Gen 7:1 · Gen 12:2 · Gen 19:12 · Lev 14:4 · Num 4:8 · Num 19:6 · +10 more

19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.Cross-references: Ex 12:13 · Ex 12:23 · Lev 20:9 · Lev 20:11 · Num 35:26 · Josh 2:14 · +14 more

20But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”Cross-references: Prov 11:13

21She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.Cross-references: Josh 2:18 · Matt 7:24 · John 2:5

22They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.Cross-references: 1Sam 19:10 · 2Sam 17:20 · Ps 32:6

23Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.

24They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”Cross-references: Ex 15:15 · Ex 23:31 · Num 13:32 · Josh 1:8 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 5:1 · +4 more