Joshua 2:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

She had, however, brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 17:19

The man’s wife took a covering, stretched it over the well’s mouth, and spread out grain on it, and nothing was known of it.

1 Kings 18:13

Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets fifty to a cave and provided them with bread and water?

1 Kings 18:4

when Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them fifty to a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

2 Kings 11:2

But Jehosheba, King Joram’s daughter, Ahaziah’s sister, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s children who were about to be killed; she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus she hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not killed;

Exodus 2:2

The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the secretary Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them.

Matthew 24:17

the one on the housetop must not go down to take things from the house;

Deuteronomy 22:8

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof; otherwise you might have bloodguilt on your house, if anyone should fall from it.

Colossians 3:3

for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Hebrews 11:23

By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

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 2:5

And when it was time to close the gate at dark, the men went out. Where the men went I do not know. Pursue them quickly, for you can overtake them.”

Joshua 2:7

So the men pursued them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. As soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.

Joshua 2:8

Before they went to sleep, she came up to them on the roof

Joshua 6:25

But Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, Joshua spared. Her family has lived in Israel ever since. For she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.