Joshua 2:3

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Gen 38:24 : 24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
  • Gen 42:9-9 : 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land." 10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies." 12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"
  • Gen 42:31 : 31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.
  • Lev 24:14 : 14 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
  • Josh 10:23 : 23 They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
  • 2 Sam 10:3 : 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"
  • 1 Chr 19:3 : 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"
  • Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
  • John 19:4 : 4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
  • Acts 12:6 : 6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 2:1-2
    2 verses
    90%

    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."

  • Josh 2:4-10
    7 verses
    84%

    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;

    9 and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

    10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

  • Josh 6:22-25
    4 verses
    81%

    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 They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house.

    25 But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

  • Josh 6:17
    74%

    17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

  • Josh 6:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

    2 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.

  • Num 13:21
    71%

    21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

  • Heb 11:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

    31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

  • Josh 2:21-23
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

    22 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.

    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.

  • Josh 2:14-18
    5 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Jas 2:25
    71%

    25 In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

  • Judg 1:24-25
    2 verses
    69%

    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."

    25 He showed them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.

  • Josh 7:2
    69%

    2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

  • Judg 19:22
    69%

    22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!"

  • Gen 19:5
    69%

    5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

  • Josh 9:6
    68%

    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."

  • Josh 10:3
    68%

    3 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

  • Isa 39:3
    68%

    3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, "What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon."

  • Deut 1:22
    68%

    22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  • 1 Sam 6:21
    68%

    21 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come down, and bring it up to yourselves."

  • 1 Sam 30:29
    68%

    29 and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

  • Josh 12:9
    68%

    9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

  • Josh 10:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me."

    23 They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

  • 2 Kgs 7:11
    67%

    11 He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

  • Josh 24:11
    67%

    11 "'You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

  • 2 Kgs 20:14
    67%

    14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They are come from a far country, even from Babylon."

  • Gen 42:12
    67%

    12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    67%

    18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Concerning the words which you have heard,

  • Josh 8:23
    66%

    23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

  • Jer 17:20
    66%

    20 and tell them, Hear the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: