Joshua 2:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֗ה הִשָּֽׁבְעוּ־נָ֥א לִי֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה כִּי־עָשִׂ֥יתִי עִמָּכֶ֖ם חָ֑סֶד וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם גַּם־אַתֶּ֜ם עִם־בֵּ֤ית אָבִי֙ חֶ֔סֶד וּנְתַתֶּ֥ם לִ֖י א֥וֹת אֱמֶֽת

Transliteration

And-now hiššāḇʿû-please to-me in-YHWH for-ʿāśîṯî with-you ḥāseḏ and-waʿăśîṯem also-you with-house-of my-father ḥeseḏ and-ûnəṯattem to-me sign-of ʾĕmeṯ

Grammar Details

• *hiššāḇʿû*: niphal imperative masculine plural - swear
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
• *ʿāśîṯî*: qal perfect 1st common singular - I have done
• *ḥāseḏ*: noun masculine singular - kindness/loyalty/faithfulness
• *waʿăśîṯem*: waw consecutive + qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - and you will do
• *ḥeseḏ*: noun masculine singular - kindness/loyalty/faithfulness
• *ûnəṯattem*: waw consecutive + qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - and you will give
• *ʾĕmeṯ*: noun feminine singular - truth/faithfulness

Word Meanings

• *ḥāseḏ*: kindness/loyalty/faithfulness/covenant love
• *ʾĕmeṯ*: truth/faithfulness/reliability

Referenced Verses

• Josh 2:18 : 18 Behold, 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 bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
• Josh 9:15 : 15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
• Josh 9:18-20 : 18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
• 1 Sam 20:14-17 : 14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not: 15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth. 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies. 17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
• 1 Sam 24:21-22 : 21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house. 22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
• 1 Sam 30:15 : 15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
• 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
• Esth 8:6 : 6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
• Jer 12:16 : 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
• Ezek 9:4-6 : 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
• Mark 14:44 : 44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
• Rom 1:31 : 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
• 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
• 2 Tim 1:16-18 : 16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
• Gen 24:3 : 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
• Gen 24:9 : 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
• Exod 12:13 : 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
• Josh 2:13 : 13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.