Joshua 2:7

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Judg 3:28 : 28 He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow any man to pass over.
  • Judg 12:5 : 5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;"
  • Acts 5:23 : 23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"
  • Josh 2:5 : 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."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 2:1-6
    6 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Josh 2:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

    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 2:8
    78%

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

  • Josh 2:21-23
    3 verses
    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.

  • Gen 19:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Gen 19:6
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 7:11
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:5
    71%

    5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.

  • Judg 3:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23 Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

    24 Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, "Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room."

  • Josh 6:1
    70%

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

  • Judg 3:28
    70%

    28 He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow any man to pass over.

  • Josh 6:22
    70%

    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."

  • Gen 7:16
    70%

    16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

  • Neh 7:3
    69%

    3 I said to them, "Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."

  • Ezek 44:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

    2 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

  • Neh 3:6
    69%

    6 The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.

  • 2 Kgs 4:21
    69%

    21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.

  • Josh 8:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

    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.

  • Judg 9:51
    68%

    51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.

  • Judg 12:5
    68%

    5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;"

  • Judg 1:25
    68%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    68%

    17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her."

  • 2 Kgs 4:33
    68%

    33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

  • Judg 8:4
    68%

    4 Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

  • Josh 8:6
    68%

    6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,