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When they came to the city, they went to spend the night in the house of a prostitute named Rahab. </span><span class="v6_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.2" class="v6_2_2">2</span>The king of Jericho heard that some Israelites had come that night to spy out the country, </span><span class="v6_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.3" class="v6_2_3">3</span>so he sent word to Rahab: “The men in your house have come to spy out the whole country! Bring them out!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.4-Josh.2.6" class="v6_2_4">4-6</span>“Some men did come to my house,” she answered, “but I don't know where they were from. They left at sundown before the city gate was closed. I didn't find out where they were going, but if you start after them quickly, you can catch them.” (Now Rahab had taken the two spies up on the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax that she had put there.) </span><span class="v6_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.7" class="v6_2_7">7</span>The king's men left the city, and then the gate was shut. They went looking for the Israelite spies as far as the place where the road crosses the Jordan.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.8" class="v6_2_8">8</span>Before the spies settled down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof </span><span class="v6_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.9" class="v6_2_9">9</span>and said to them, “I know that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has given you this land. Everyone in the country is terrified of you. </span><span class="v6_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.10" class="v6_2_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.2.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> We have heard how the <span class="nd">Lord</span> dried up the Red Sea in front of you when you were leaving Egypt. We have also heard how you killed Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan. </span><span class="v6_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.11" class="v6_2_11">11</span>We were afraid as soon as we heard about it; we have all lost our courage because of you. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God is God in heaven above and here on earth. </span><span class="v6_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.12" class="v6_2_12">12</span>Now swear by him that you will treat my family as kindly as I have treated you, and give me some sign that I can trust you. </span><span class="v6_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.13" class="v6_2_13">13</span>Promise me that you will save my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families! Don't let us be killed!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.14" class="v6_2_14">14</span>The men said to her, “May God take our lives if we don't do as we say!<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.2.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> If you do not tell anyone what we have been doing, we promise you that when the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gives us this land, we will treat you well.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.15" class="v6_2_15">15</span>Rahab lived in a house built into the city wall, so she let the men down from the window by a rope. </span><span class="v6_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.16" class="v6_2_16">16</span>“Go into the hill country,” she said, “or the king's men will find you. Hide there for three days until they come back. After that, you can go on your way.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.17" class="v6_2_17">17</span>The men said to her, “We will keep the promise that you have made us give. </span><span class="v6_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.18" class="v6_2_18">18</span>This is what you must do. When we invade your land, tie this red cord to the window you let us down from. Get your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's family together in your house. </span><span class="v6_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.19" class="v6_2_19">19</span>If anyone goes out of the house, his death will be his own fault, and we will not be responsible; but if anyone in the house with you is harmed, then we will be responsible. </span><span class="v6_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.20" class="v6_2_20">20</span>However, if you tell anyone what we have been doing, then we will not have to keep our promise which you have made us give you.” </span><span class="v6_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.21" class="v6_2_21">21</span>She agreed and sent them away. When they had gone, she tied the red cord to the window.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.22" class="v6_2_22">22</span>The spies went into the hills and hid. The king's men looked for them all over the countryside for three days, but they did not find them, so they returned to Jericho. </span><span class="v6_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.23" class="v6_2_23">23</span>Then the two spies came down from the hills, crossed the river, and went back to Joshua. They told him everything that had happened, </span><span class="v6_2_24"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.2.24" class="v6_2_24">24</span>and then said, “We are sure that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has given us the whole country. All the people there are terrified of us.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.14: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">May God … say; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">We will protect you if you protect us.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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