Joshua 2:14

Webster's Bible (1833)

The men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our business; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

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  • Gen 24:49 : 49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
  • Judg 1:24-25 : 24 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you. 25 He shown 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.
  • Matt 5:7 : 7 Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.
  • 1 Sam 20:8 : 8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?
  • 2 Sam 9:1 : 1 David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
  • 1 Kgs 20:39 : 39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
  • Prov 18:24 : 24 A man of many companions may be ruined, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
  • Num 10:29-32 : 29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel. 30 He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives. 31 He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes. 32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you.
  • Josh 6:17 : 17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, 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 6:25 : 25 But Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 2:12-13
    2 verses
    84%

    12 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;

    13 and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

  • Josh 2:15-22
    8 verses
    83%

    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, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you 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: and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household.

    19 It shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him.

    20 But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.

    21 She said, According to your words, so be it. She sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

    22 They went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.

  • Josh 9:20
    74%

    20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.

  • Josh 2:4-9
    6 verses
    74%

    4 The woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know whence they were:

    5 and 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 after 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 after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

    8 Before they were 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 is fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

  • Gen 26:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

    29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

  • 1 Sam 25:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:

    16 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

  • Gen 34:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

    22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

    23 Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

  • Judg 1:24
    72%

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

  • Gen 42:11
    72%

    11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

  • Num 10:32
    72%

    32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you.

  • 1 Sam 14:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    10 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign to us.

  • Gen 42:31
    72%

    31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

  • Gen 34:10
    71%

    10 You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

    8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?

  • Judg 21:22
    71%

    22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Hereby will I know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

    34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

  • Josh 9:11
    71%

    11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.

  • Josh 6:22
    71%

    22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.

  • Judg 4:20
    71%

    20 He said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you shall say, No.

  • Gen 34:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

    16 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • Josh 9:24
    70%

    24 They answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that 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 sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • Gen 43:7
    70%

    7 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

  • Judg 8:19
    70%

    19 He said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: as Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.

  • Gen 21:23
    70%

    23 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."