Judges 1:24

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The 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."

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  • Josh 2:12-14 : 12 Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you will show kindness to my family because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign 13 that 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." 14 The 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."
  • 1 Sam 30:15 : 15 David asked him, "Can you lead me to this raiding party?" He answered, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor hand me over to my master, and I will lead you to them."

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    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.

    26The man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and named it Luz, which is its name to this day.

  • Judg 1:22-23
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    22The people of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

    23The house of Joseph spied out Bethel, which had previously been called Luz.

  • Judg 19:13-17
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    13He said to his servant, "Come, let us approach one of these places and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."

    14So they passed on and continued their journey. The sun set as they came near Gibeah, which belongs to the tribe of Benjamin.

    15They turned aside there to go in and spend the night in Gibeah. When they went in, they sat in the town square, but no one took them into their house to spend the night.

    16In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim and was staying temporarily in Gibeah, though the people of the place were Benjaminites.

    17When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man asked, "Where are you going, and where have you come from?"

  • Judg 19:21-23
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    21He brought him into his house and provided fodder for the donkeys. They washed their feet, ate, and drank.

    22While they were enjoying themselves, some wicked men of the city surrounded the house. They pounded on the door and said to the old man, the owner of the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him."

    23The owner of the house went out to them and said, "No, my brothers, do not commit such an evil act. Since this man has come into my house, do not do this disgraceful act.

  • Gen 42:30-31
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    30They said, 'The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.'

    31'But we said to him, "We are honest men, not spies.

  • Josh 2:1-5
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    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!"

  • Josh 2:14-16
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    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."

    15Then 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.

    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."

  • Deut 1:22
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    22Then all of you approached me and said, 'Let us send men ahead of us to explore the land and bring back a report about the route we should take and the cities we will come to.'

  • Gen 42:12
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    12But Joseph insisted, 'No! You have come to see the vulnerability of the land.'

  • Deut 1:24
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    24They set out and went up into the hill country, and they came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it.

  • Gen 37:15
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    15A man found him wandering in the field and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

  • Josh 8:5
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    5"I and all the people with me will approach the city, and when they come out to meet us as they did before, we will flee before them."

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    31Moses said, "Please do not leave us, because you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be our eyes.

  • Josh 2:22-23
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    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 2:8
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    8Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up to the roof

  • Judg 19:11
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    11When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and stay the night there.”

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    6They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel: “We have come from a distant land; now make a treaty with us.”

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    2He said, "Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant’s house. Spend the night and wash your feet; then you can rise early and be on your way." But they said, "No, we will spend the night in the square."

  • Gen 19:5
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    5They called to Lot and said, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have relations with them."

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    2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-Aven to the east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and scout out the land." So the men went up and explored Ai.

  • Josh 6:22
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    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.'

  • Gen 19:9
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    9They replied, "Get out of the way! This man came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to act as a judge! We’ll treat you worse than them." They pressed hard against Lot and moved forward to break down the door.