Joshua 2:16
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.
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- Josh 2:22 : 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.
- 1 Sam 23:14 : 14 David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.
- 1 Sam 23:29 : 29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.
- Ps 11:1 : 1 > In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
- Jas 2:25 : 25 In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
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- Josh 2:20-234 verses86%
20But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.
21She said, According to your words, so be it. She sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
22They 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.
23Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
- Josh 2:13-153 verses85%
13and 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.
14The 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.
15Then 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.
- Josh 2:1-99 verses80%
1Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
2It was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in here tonight of the children of Israel to search out the land.
3The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men who are come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to search out all the land.
4The 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:
5and 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.
6But 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.
7The 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.
8Before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;
9and 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.
- Josh 2:17-182 verses78%
17The men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.
18Behold, 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.
- Judg 11:37-382 verses74%
37She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
38He said, Go. He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
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55Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
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32Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:
- Ruth 3:14-163 verses72%
14She 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.
15He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
16When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter? She told her all that the man had done to her.
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22Joshua 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.
- Ruth 3:3-42 verses72%
3Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your clothing on you, and get you down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
4It 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 you down; and he will tell you what you shall do.
- Josh 8:5-62 verses72%
5and 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;
6and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;
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17When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but didn't find him.
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17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
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19When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
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20He 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.
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26Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.
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9When 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 get you early on your way, that you may go home.
- 2 Sam 17:19-202 verses70%
19The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
20Absalom'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.
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17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a maid-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David: for they might not be seen to come into the city.
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16Tomorrow go you down against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and you shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
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11Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
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9If 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.
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24The 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.
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20It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
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51But 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 got them up to the roof of the tower.