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Joshua 2:15
Joshua 2:15 is verse 15 of Joshua chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
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Joshua 2:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”
14 “Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”
15 Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
16 “Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”
17 The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 19:12So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:13Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
1 Samuel 19:14When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
1 Samuel 19:15But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
1 Samuel 19:16And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.
1 Samuel 19:17And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
Acts 9:25One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
2 Corinthians 11:33But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
Joshua 6:20So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.