2 Samuel 17:19
The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.
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2 Samuel 17:19
The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.
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2 Samuel 17:20
Absalom’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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Joshua 2:4
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.
Joshua 2:5
About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
Joshua 2:6
But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
Joshua 2:7
The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
Exodus 1:19
The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
Joshua 2:14
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.”
Joshua 2:15
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.
Joshua 2:16
She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”
Joshua 2:17
The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.
Joshua 2:18
Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
Joshua 2:19
It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
Joshua 2:20
But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”
Joshua 2:21
She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.
Joshua 2:22
They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.
Joshua 2:23
Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.
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Joshua 2:8
Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.
Joshua 2:12
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 sign;
Joshua 2:13
and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”
Joshua 2:24
They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”
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Joshua 2:9
She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Joshua 2:10
For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
Joshua 2:11
As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
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Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
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