Joshua 2:1

Joshua Sends Spies into the Land

2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: ¹  “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” ²  They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. ³ 

Joshua 6:17

6:17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, ⁴  except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies ⁵  we sent.

Joshua 6:22

6:22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house ⁶  and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.” ⁷ 

Joshua 6:25

6:25 Yet Joshua spared ⁸  Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, ⁹  and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel ¹⁰  to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. ¹¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

² tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”

map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

³ tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”

⁴ tn Or “dedicated to the Lord.”

sn To make the city set apart for the Lord would involve annihilating all the people and animals and placing its riches in the Lord’s treasury (vv. 19, 21, 24).

⁵ tn Heb “messengers.”

⁶ tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”

⁷ tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”

⁸ tn Heb “kept alive.”

⁹ tn Heb the house of her father.”

¹⁰ tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

¹¹ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.