Joshua 6:25

New International Reader's Version

But Joshua spared the prostitute Rahab. He spared her family. He also spared everyone else in the house with her. He did it because she hid the spies he had sent to Jericho. Rahab lives among the Israelites to this day.

Cross References

Matthew 1:5

Salmon was the father of Boaz. Rahab was Boaz’s mother. Boaz was the father of Obed. Ruth was Obed’s mother. Obed was the father of Jesse.

Acts 2:21

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ (Joel 2:28–32)

Hebrews 11:31

Rahab, the prostitute, had faith. So she welcomed the spies. That’s why she wasn’t killed with those who didn’t obey God.

James 2:25

Didn’t God consider even Rahab the prostitute to be right with him? That’s because of what she did for the spies. She gave them a place to stay. Then she sent them off in a different direction.

Joshua 2:1

Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two spies from Shittim. He sent them in secret. He said to them, “Go and look over the land. Most of all, check out Jericho.” So they went to Jericho. They stayed at the house of a prostitute. Her name was Rahab.

Joshua 2:18

unless you do what we say. When we enter the land, you must tie this bright red rope in the window. Tie it in the window you let us down through. Bring your father and mother into your house. Also bring in your brothers and everyone else in your family.

Joshua 2:4

But the woman had hidden the two men. She said, “It’s true that the men came here. But I didn’t know where they had come from.

Joshua 2:6

But in fact she had taken them up on the roof. There she had hidden them under some flax she had piled up.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also piled up 12 stones in the middle of the river. He piled them up right where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are still there to this very day.