Joshua 2:7

New Living Translation

So the king’s men went looking for the spies along the road leading to the shallow crossings of the Jordan River. And as soon as the king’s men had left, the gate of Jericho was shut.

Cross References

Acts 5:23

“The jail was securely locked, with the guards standing outside, but when we opened the gates, no one was there!”

Joshua 2:5

They left the town at dusk, as the gates were about to close. I don’t know where they went. If you hurry, you can probably catch up with them.”

Joshua 2:6

(Actually, she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them beneath bundles of flax she had laid out.)

Joshua 2:8

Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them.

Judges 12:5

Jephthah captured the shallow crossings of the Jordan River, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim tried to go back across, the men of Gilead would challenge him. “Are you a member of the tribe of Ephraim?” they would ask. If the man said, “No, I’m not,”

Judges 3:28

“Follow me,” he said, “for the Lord has given you victory over Moab your enemy.” So they followed him. And the Israelites took control of the shallow crossings of the Jordan River across from Moab, preventing anyone from crossing.