Joshua 6:25

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
  • Matt 1:5 : 5 Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
  • Acts 2:21 : 21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
  • Jas 2:25 : 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?
  • Josh 2:6 : 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 4:9 : 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
  • Josh 11:19-20 : 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle. 20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • Judg 1:24-25 : 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.

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  • Josh 6:15-17
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    15 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

    16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

    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 6:21-24
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    21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

    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.

  • Josh 2:1-4
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    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.

  • Heb 11:30-31
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    79%

    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.

  • 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?

  • Josh 6:26-27
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    26 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed is the man before Yahweh, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."

    27 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.

  • Josh 2:14-16
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    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."

  • Josh 6:1-3
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    69%

    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.

    3 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

  • 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.

  • 30 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Josh 9:26-27
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    26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.

    27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

  • Josh 8:26-27
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    26 For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

    27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.

  • 13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

  • 15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

  • 20 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

  • 24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

  • 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

  • 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

  • 27 It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

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

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

  • 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

  • 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

  • 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.