Joshua 2:22

World English Bible (2000)

They 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.

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  • 1 Sam 19:10-12 : 10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. 11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.
  • 2 Sam 17:20 : 20 Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 32:6-7 : 6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him. 7 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

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  • Josh 2:14-18
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    86%

    14 The 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."

    15 Then 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.

    16 She 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."

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

    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.

  • 23 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.

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

  • Josh 2:1-8
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    77%

    1 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

    2 The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."

    3 The 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."

    4 The 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.

    5 It 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."

    6 But 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.

    7 The 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.

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

  • 17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, "Send them." They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn't find him.

  • Josh 6:22-23
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    22 Joshua 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."

    23 The 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.

  • 24 and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

  • 2 It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

  • 14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

  • 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

  • Luke 2:44-45
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    44 but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

    45 When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.

  • 33 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

  • 25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

  • 4 His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; and he stayed with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there.

  • 2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

  • 13 They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

  • 20 Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

  • Num 13:21-22
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    21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

    22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • 22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.

  • 26 Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.

  • 4 He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn't find them.

  • 22 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

  • 8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

  • 2 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

  • 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

  • 6 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

  • 9 If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

  • 16 It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

  • 24 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."