The Lord is my fortress! Don't say to me, “Escape like a bird to the mountains!”
Joshua 2:16 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition Then hide in the hills. The men who are looking for you won't be able to find you there. They'll give up and come back after a few days, and you can be on your way.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And she said to them, Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers have returned; and afterward you may go your way. American Standard Version (1901) And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. Common English Bible Then she said to them, “Go toward the highlands so that those chasing you don’t run into you. Hide there for three days until those chasing you return. Then you may go on your way.” Catholic Public Domain Version And she said to them: "Climb up to the mountains; otherwise, they may meet you as they are returning. And lay hidden there for three days, until they return. And then you will go on your way." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return; and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back. And so you shall go on your way. |
The Lord is my fortress! Don't say to me, “Escape like a bird to the mountains!”
For example, Rahab had been a prostitute. But she pleased God when she welcomed the spies and sent them home by another way.
Rahab's house was built into the town wall, and one of the windows in her house faced outside the wall. She gave the spies a rope, showed them the window, and said, “Use this rope to let yourselves down to the ground outside the wall.
The spies hid in the hills for three days while the king's soldiers looked for them along the roads. As soon as the soldiers gave up and returned to Jericho,
David stayed in hideouts in the hill country of Ziph Desert. Saul kept searching, but God never let Saul catch him.