Joshua 2:22 - Easy To Read Version

²² The men left her house and went into the hills. They stayed there for three days. The king’s men looked all along the road. After three days, the king’s men gave up and went back to the city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² They left and went to the mountain and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned, who had searched all along the way without finding them.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

²² The spies went out and entered the highlands. They stayed there for three days until those chasing them came back. Those chasing them had searched all along the road but never found them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And truly, walking on, they arrived at the mountains, and they stayed there for three days, until those who had been pursuing them returned. For having sought them along the entire way, they did not find them.

Joshua 2:22 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:20

Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house. They asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

Joshua 2:21

The woman answered, “I will do exactly what you said.” The woman said goodbye, and the men left her house. Then the woman tied the red rope in the window.

Joshua 2:23

Then the two men went back to Joshua. The men left the hills and crossed the river. They went to Joshua son of Nun. They told Joshua everything that they had learned.