Joshua 2:15

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Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was part of the city wall, and she lived in the wall.

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  • Acts 9:25 : 25 But his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall.
  • 2 Cor 11:33 : 33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
  • Josh 6:20 : 20 When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted. At the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a great shout, the wall collapsed. Each person charged straight in, and they captured the city.
  • 1 Sam 19:12-17 : 12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped. 13 Michal then took a household idol, placed it in the bed, put a quilt made of goat's hair at its head, and covered it with a garment. 14 When Saul sent messengers to capture David, Michal said, 'He is sick.' 15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, 'Bring him to me in his bed so I can kill him.' 16 When the messengers arrived, they found the household idol in the bed, with a quilt of goat's hair at its head. 17 Saul said to Michal, 'Why have you deceived me like this? You let my enemy go, and he has escaped.' Michal answered Saul, 'He said to me,

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  • Josh 2:16-23
    8 verses
    85%

    16She said to them, "Go to the hill country so the pursuers won’t find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they return, and then go on your way."

    17The men said to her, "We will be free from this oath you made us swear

    18if, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet rope in the window through which you let us down and gathered your family into your house—your father, mother, brothers, and all who belong to you.

    19If anyone leaves the house, their death will be on their own head, and we will not be guilty. But if harm comes to anyone in your house, we will take the blame.

    20But if you reveal this matter of ours, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.

    21She said, "Let it be as you say." So she sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

    22They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers searched all along the road but did not find them.

    23Then the two men came down from the hill country, crossed over, and went to Joshua son of Nun. They reported to him all that had happened to them.

  • Josh 2:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death."

    14The men said to her, "Our lives for your lives! If you don't tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land."

  • Josh 2:1-9
    9 verses
    81%

    1Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from Shittim, saying, "Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho." They went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

    2Soon the king of Jericho was told, "Some men from the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land."

    3So the king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab: "Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they've come to spy on the entire land."

    4But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they were from.

    5At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left, and I don’t know where they went. Pursue them quickly, and you might catch up with them!"

    6(But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under stalks of flax she had arranged there.)

    7The pursuers set out along the road toward the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left, the city gate was shut.

    8Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up to the roof

    9and said to them, "I know that the LORD has given you this land and that fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.

  • Josh 6:22-23
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    73%

    22But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, 'Go to the house of the prostitute and bring her out, along with everyone who belongs to her, just as you swore to her.'

    23So the young men who had scouted the land went in and brought out Rahab, along with her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and placed them outside the camp of Israel.

  • Judg 1:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24The spies saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, "Please show us how to enter the city, and we will treat you kindly."

    25He showed them the way into the city, and they struck the city with the sword but let the man and his family go free.

  • Ruth 3:14-15
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    70%

    14So she lay at his feet until morning but got up before anyone could recognize another. For he said, 'Let it not be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.'

    15And he said, 'Bring me the cloak that you are wearing and hold it out.' So she held it out, and he measured out six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the town.

  • Judg 4:20
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    20He said to her, "Stand at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes and asks you, 'Is there a man here?' say, 'No.'"

  • 1 Sam 19:12
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    12So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped.

  • Josh 6:25
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    25Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, along with her family and everyone belonging to her, and she has lived among the Israelites to this day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    69%

    16They were a wall of protection around us, both night and day, the whole time we were with them tending the sheep.

  • Gen 24:18
    69%

    18"Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

  • 2 Sam 20:15-16
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    15Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maacah. They built a siege ramp against the city and stood against the outer rampart. As they worked to breach the wall,

    16a wise woman called out from the city, "Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here so I can speak to him."

  • 2 Sam 17:19
    69%

    19The man's wife took a covering, spread it over the opening of the well, and scattered grain on top of it so that nothing was noticeable.

  • Judg 9:51
    69%

    51Now there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men and women, along with the city's leaders, fled there. They shut themselves inside and climbed up to the roof of the tower.

  • Gen 39:14
    68%

    14she called her household servants and said to them, "Look, this Hebrew man has been brought to us to mock us! He came to me to lie with me, but I screamed loudly.

  • Josh 6:17
    68%

    17The city and all within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and those with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers we sent.

  • 2 Kgs 4:10
    68%

    10Let’s make a small room on the roof with walls and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then, whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.

  • Judg 19:26
    68%

    26At daybreak, the woman came and fell at the doorway of the man's house where her master was staying, and she lay there until it was light.