Joshua 6:25

The Passion Translation

Yet Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, and all that belonged to her. She lives among the Israelites to this day because she hid the two men Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Cross References

Matthew 1:5

who had a son named Salmon, who, along with Rahab, had a son named Boaz. Boaz and Ruth had a son named Obed, who was the father of Jesse,

Acts 2:21

But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ”

Hebrews 11:31

Faith provided a way of escape for Rahab the prostitute, avoiding the destruction of the unbelievers, because she received the Hebrew spies in peace.

James 2:25

And the same is true of the prostitute named Rahab who was found righteous in God’s eyes by her works, for she received the spies into her home and helped them escape from the city by another route.

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent out two spies from their camp at Acacia. He told them, “Go and explore the land of Canaan, especially Jericho.” They went and arrived at Jericho and entered the house of Rahab the prostitute and lodged there.

Joshua 2:18

When our invasion begins, bring all your family together in your house—your father and mother, your brothers and sisters, and all their families. And tie this crimson rope in the same window through which you let us down.

Joshua 2:4

But Rahab had already hidden the two men. “Yes,” she said. “The men came to me, but I had no idea where they were from.

Joshua 2:6

(Rahab had hidden the men on her rooftop under stalks of flax she had spread out to dry on the roof.)

Joshua 4:9

Joshua set up the memorial stones that they had taken from the exact spot where the priests stood bearing the ark in the riverbed. They remain there to this day.