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So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>It was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men from the sons of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>And the king of Jericho sent <i>word</i> to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them, and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>It came about when <i>it was time</i> to shut the gate at dark, that the men went out; I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>So the men pursued them on the road to the Jordan to the fords; and as soon as those who were pursuing them had gone out, they shut the gate.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>and said to the men, I know that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>For we have heard how the L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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 Og, whom you utterly destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>When we heard <i>it,</i> our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Now therefore, please swear to me by the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my fathers household, and give me a pledge of truth, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>So the men said to her, Our life for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it shall come about when the L<font size="1">ORD</font> gives us the land that we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Promise to Rahab</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>She said to them, Go to the hill country, so that the pursuers will not happen upon you, and hide yourselves there for three days until the pursuers return. Then afterward you may go on your way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>The men said to her, We <i>shall be</i> free from this oath to you which you have made us swear, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your fathers household. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>It shall come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood <i>shall be</i> on his own head, and we <i>shall be</i> free; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood <i>shall be</i> on our head if a hand is <i>laid</i> on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be free from the oath which you have made us swear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>She said, According to your words, so be it. So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>They departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had sought <i>them</i> all along the road, but had not found <i>them.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Then the two men returned and came down from the hill country and crossed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they related to him all that had happened to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/2-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>They said to Joshua, Surely the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has given all the land into our hands; moreover, all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before us.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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