Joshua 2:21

World English Bible (2000)

She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 2:18 : 18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.
  • Matt 7:24 : 24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
  • John 2:5 : 5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."

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    13and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

    14The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."

    15Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

    16She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."

    17The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

    18Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

    19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

    20But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear."

  • Josh 2:22
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    22They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.

  • Josh 2:3-8
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    3The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land."

    4The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from.

    5It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."

    6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.

    7The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

    8Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof;

  • Josh 6:22-23
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    72%

    22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her."

    23The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

  • Ruth 3:5-6
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    18He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

    19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

  • Judg 11:36-38
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    36She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."

    37She said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions."

    38He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

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  • Gen 38:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

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    12She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

    13When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,

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  • Judg 4:20
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  • 2 Sam 13:17-18
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    17Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her."

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    67%

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    55Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."

  • Gen 24:57
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    57They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."

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    67%

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