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Joshua 2:16
Joshua 2:16 is verse 16 of Joshua chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“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.”
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.”
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Joshua 2:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
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
18 unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joshua 2:22So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.
1 Samuel 23:14And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
1 Samuel 23:29And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!