Joshua 2:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When we invade the land, tie this red rope in the window through which you let us down, and gather together in your house your father, mother, brothers, and all who live in your father’s house.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 6:23 : 23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside the Israelite camp.
  • Gen 19:12-17 : 12 Then the two visitors said to Lot,“Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place 13 because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it.” 14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them. 15 At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying,“Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” 16 When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city. 17 When they had brought them outside, they said,“Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
  • Gen 7:1 : 1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
  • Josh 2:12-13 : 12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the LORD’s name. Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. Give me a solemn pledge 13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”
  • Josh 2:21 : 21 She said,“I agree to these conditions.” She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
  • Lev 14:4 : 4 then the priest will command that two live clean birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop be taken up for the one being cleansed.
  • Num 4:8 : 8 They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.
  • Num 19:6 : 6 And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning.
  • Esth 8:6 : 6 For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?”
  • Luke 19:9 : 9 Then Jesus said to him,“Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!
  • Acts 10:27 : 27 Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.
  • Acts 10:33 : 33 Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”
  • Acts 11:14 : 14 who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’
  • 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.
  • Heb 9:19 : 19 For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Josh 2:19-22
    4 verses
    84%

    19Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

    20If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

    21She said,“I agree to these conditions.” She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.

    22They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them to return. Their pursuers looked all along the way but did not find them.

  • Josh 2:12-17
    6 verses
    79%

    12So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the LORD’s name. Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. Give me a solemn pledge

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

    14The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”

    15Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window.(Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)

    16She told them,“Head to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you to return. Then you can be on your way.”

    17The men said to her,“We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met:

  • Josh 2:3-8
    6 verses
    72%

    3So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab:“Turn over the men who came to you– the ones who came to your house– for they have come to spy on the whole land!”

    4But the woman hid the two men and replied,“Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn’t know where they came from.

    5When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”

    6(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

    7Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.

    8Now before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to the roof.

  • Gen 24:37-38
    2 verses
    71%

    37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • Gen 38:28
    70%

    28While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying,“This one came out first.”

  • Josh 6:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land,“Enter the prostitute’s house and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.”

    23So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside the Israelite camp.

  • Gen 44:21-24
    4 verses
    69%

    21“Then you told your servants,‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’

    22We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

    23But you said to your servants,‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’

    24When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

  • Gen 44:30-32
    3 verses
    69%

    30“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

    31When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

    32Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

  • Gen 45:13
    68%

    13So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

  • Gen 43:7
    68%

    7They replied,“The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying,‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say,‘Bring your brother down’?”

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    68%

    33“Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us,‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

    34But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’”

  • Gen 24:41
    68%

    41You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’

  • Ruth 3:4
    68%

    4When he gets ready to go to sleep, take careful notice of the place where he lies down. Then go, uncover his legs, and lie down beside him. He will tell you what you should do.”

  • Gen 31:16
    68%

    16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • Gen 24:4
    67%

    4You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

  • Gen 38:30
    67%

    30Afterward his brother came out– the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand– and he was named Zerah.

  • Gen 44:8
    67%

    8Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

  • Gen 24:8
    67%

    8But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”

  • Gen 37:7
    67%

    7There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!”

  • Gen 42:12
    67%

    12“No,” he insisted,“but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

  • Gen 44:26
    67%

    26But we replied,‘We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

  • Ruth 3:15
    67%

    15Then he said,“Hold out the shawl you are wearing and grip it tightly.” As she held it tightly, he measured out about sixty pounds of barley into the shawl and put it on her shoulders. Then he went into town,

  • 2 Sam 17:13
    67%

    13If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

  • Gen 20:13
    67%

    13When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her,‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me,“He is my brother.”’”