Joshua 2:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

She said to them, “Go toward the hill country, so that the pursuers may not come upon you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; then afterward you may go your way.”

Cross References

Psalm 11:1

In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains,

James 2:25

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

Joshua 2:15

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the outer side of the city wall and she resided within the wall itself.

Joshua 2:22

They departed and went into the hill country and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had searched all along the way and found nothing.

1 Samuel 23:14

David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but the Lord did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:29

David then went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.