Joshua 2:5

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Josh 2:7 : 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.
  • Neh 13:19 : 19 It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
  • Isa 60:11 : 11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
  • Jer 50:20 : 20 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
  • Ezek 47:1-2 : 1 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar. 2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
  • Ezek 47:12 : 12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.
  • Rom 3:7-8 : 7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
  • Rev 21:25 : 25 Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

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  • Josh 2:6-8
    3 verses
    84%

    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;

  • Josh 2:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Josh 2:14-18
    5 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Josh 2:21-23
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    77%

    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.

  • Judg 19:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    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!"

    23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; since this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.

  • Judg 19:25-28
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    74%

    25 But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold of his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning: and when the day began to dawn, they let her go.

    26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.

    27 Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

    28 He said to her, "Get up, and let us be going!" but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

  • Judg 19:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

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

    15 They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.

  • Judg 9:32
    72%

    32 Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

  • Gen 19:5-6
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    72%

    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."

    6 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

  • Gen 19:10-11
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    72%

    10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

    11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

  • Judg 19:9
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    9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home."

  • Ruth 3:14
    71%

    14 She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

  • Prov 7:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

    9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

  • Judg 19:11
    70%

    11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, "Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it."

  • Gen 39:13
    70%

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

  • Gen 39:18
    70%

    18 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."

  • Neh 2:15
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    15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

  • Josh 8:5
    70%

    5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

  • Gen 39:15
    70%

    15 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."

  • 2 Sam 17:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19 The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 2:17
    69%

    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.

  • Ruth 3:4
    69%

    4 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay down; then he will tell you what you shall do."

  • Gen 19:2
    69%

    2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

  • 2 Sam 2:24
    69%

    24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

  • Josh 8:17
    69%

    17 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

  • Josh 6:22
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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."

  • Judg 1:24
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    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."

  • Judg 20:5
    69%

    5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine, and she is dead.

  • Gen 37:17
    69%

    17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

  • Gen 44:4
    69%

    4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?