Joshua 2:22
They 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.
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- 1 Sam 19:10-12 : 10 Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. David escaped quickly that night. 11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him,“If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!” 12 So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.
- 2 Sam 17:20 : 20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked,“Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them,“They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
- Ps 32:6-7 : 6 For this reason every one of your faithful followers should pray to you while there is a window of opportunity. Certainly when the surging water rises, it will not reach them. 7 You are my hiding place; you protect me from distress. You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance.(Selah)
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- Josh 2:14-185 verses86%
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:
18When 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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23Then the two men returned– they came down from the hills, crossed the river, came to Joshua son of Nun, and reported to him all they had discovered.
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21She said,“I agree to these conditions.” She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.
- Josh 2:1-88 verses77%
1Joshua Sends Spies into the Land Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them:“Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.
2The king of Jericho received this report:“Note well! Israelite men have come here tonight to spy on the land.”
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.
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17But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said,“Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah.
- Josh 6:22-232 verses72%
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.
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24They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.
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2After three days the leaders went through the camp
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14So they traveled on, and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.
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23So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
- Luke 2:44-452 verses71%
44but(because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
45When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
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33So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.
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25They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
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4His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.
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2After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
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13From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah’s house.
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20When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked,“Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them,“They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
- Num 13:21-222 verses69%
21The Spies’ Activities So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.
22When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living.(Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
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22Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.
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26Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.
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4So Saul crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
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22So he returned to Judah and said,“I couldn’t find her. Moreover, the men of the place said,‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”
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8They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem.
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2The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, capable men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them,“Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house.
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22Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent. The things were hidden right in his tent, with the silver underneath.
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6They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel,“We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.”
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9If they say to us,‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.
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16Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby.
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24the spies spotted a man leaving the city. They said to him,“If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”