Joshua 6:25

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Matthew 1:5

Salmon the father of Boaz (by Rahab), Boaz the father of Obed (by Ruth), Obed the father of Jesse,

Acts 2:21

And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Hebrews 11:31

By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

James 2:25

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Joshua 2:1

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

Joshua 2:18

When we invade the land, tie this red rope in the window through which you let us down, and gather together in your house your father, mother, brothers, and all who live in your father’s house.

Joshua 2:4

But the woman hid the two men and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn’t know where they came from.

Joshua 2:6

(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set up twelve stonesin the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.