Joshua 2:14

American Standard Version (1901)

And the men said unto her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business; and it shall be, when Jehovah giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

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  • Gen 24:49 : 49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
  • Judg 1:24-25 : 24 And the watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with thee. 25 And he showed them the entrance into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.
  • Matt 5:7 : 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
  • 1 Sam 20:8 : 8 Therefore deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of Jehovah with thee: but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
  • 2 Sam 9:1 : 1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
  • 1 Kgs 20:39 : 39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king; and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
  • Prov 18:24 : 24 He that maketh many friends [doeth it] to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
  • Num 10:29-32 : 29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel. 30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. 31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
  • Josh 6:17 : 17 And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
  • Josh 6:25 : 25 But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel unto this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 2:12-13
    2 verses
    84%

    12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by Jehovah, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;

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

  • Josh 2:15-22
    8 verses
    83%

    15Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

    16And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

    17And the men said unto her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

    18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household.

    19And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

    20But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

    21And 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.

    22And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

  • Josh 9:20
    74%

    20This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

  • Josh 2:4-9
    6 verses
    74%

    4And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were:

    5and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will overtake them.

    6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

    7And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

    8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

    9and she said unto the men, I know that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that the fear of you is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

  • Gen 26:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee: and we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,

    29that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of Jehovah.

  • 1 Sam 25:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:

    16they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

  • Gen 34:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

    22Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

    23Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

  • Judg 1:24
    72%

    24And the watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with thee.

  • Gen 42:11
    72%

    11We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

  • Num 10:32
    72%

    32And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.

  • 1 Sam 14:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

    10But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up; for Jehovah hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign unto us.

  • Gen 42:31
    72%

    31And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

  • Gen 34:10
    71%

    10And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.

    8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?

  • Judg 21:22
    71%

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man [of them] his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take [grain for] the famine of your houses, and go your way;

    34and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.

  • Josh 9:11
    71%

    11And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: and now make ye a covenant with us.

  • Josh 6:22
    71%

    22And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.

  • Judg 4:20
    71%

    20And he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

  • Gen 34:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

    16then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • Josh 9:24
    70%

    24And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • Gen 43:7
    70%

    7And they said, The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any wise know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

  • Judg 8:19
    70%

    19And he said, They were my brethren, the sons of my mother: as Jehovah liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

  • Gen 21:23
    70%

    23now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.