SAVED BY A RED ROPE
Joshua 2:1-24 - 6:22-24
1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy
secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went,
and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. 2
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came
men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the
country. 3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring
forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine
house: for they be come to search out all the country. 4 And the
woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came
men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]: 5 And it came to
pass [about the time] of shutting of the gate, when it was dark,
that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue
after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. 6 But she had
brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the
stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. 7 And
the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and
as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut
the gate. 8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them
upon the roof; 9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD
hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us,
and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea
for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two
kings of the Amorites, that [were] on the other side Jordan, Sihon
and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard
[these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any
more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he
[is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. 12 Now therefore,
I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you
kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house,
and give me a true token: 13 And [that] ye will save alive my
father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all
that they have, and deliver our lives from death. 14 And the men
answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our
business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land,
that we will deal kindly and truly with thee. 15 Then she let
them down by a cord through the window: for her house [was] upon
the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto
them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and
hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned:
and afterward may ye go your way. 17 And the men said unto her,
We [will be] blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us
swear. 18 Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind
this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us
down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy
brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee. 19 And
it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy
house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we
[will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the
house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon
him. 20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit
of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. 21 And she said,
According unto your words, so [be] it. And she sent them away, and
they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. 22
And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three
days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought
[them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not. 23 So the
two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed
over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all [things]
that befell them: 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD
hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the
inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. 6:22 But
Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country,
Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and
all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. 23 And the young men
that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father,
and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they
brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of
Israel. 24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was]
therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass
and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD._
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