Joshua 2:6

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • 2 Sam 17:19 : 19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
  • 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
  • 1 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
  • 2 Kgs 11:2 : 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
  • Jer 36:26 : 26 But the king commanded ahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and emiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
  • Matt 24:17 : 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
  • Col 3:3 : 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
  • Heb 11:23 : 23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
  • Jas 2:25 : 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
  • Exod 1:15-21 : 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
  • Exod 2:2 : 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
  • Deut 22:8 : 8 When thou builst a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
  • Josh 2:8 : 8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

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