Then Elisha went to them and said, “You are on the wrong road; this is not the town you are looking for. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are after.” And he led them to Samaria.
Joshua 2:4 - Good News Translation (US Version) “Some men did come to my house,” she answered, “but I don't know where they were from. They left at sundown before the city gate was closed. I didn't find out where they were going, but if you start after them quickly, you can catch them.” (Now Rahab had taken the two spies up on the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax that she had put there.) Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, Yes, two men came to me, but I did not know from where they had come. American Standard Version (1901) And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were: Common English Bible But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. Then she said, “Of course the men came to me. But I didn’t know where they were from. Catholic Public Domain Version And the woman, taking the men, hid them. And she said: "I admit that they came to me, but I did not know where they were from. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were: |
Then Elisha went to them and said, “You are on the wrong road; this is not the town you are looking for. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are after.” And he led them to Samaria.
They answered, “The Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they give birth easily, and their babies are born before either of us gets there.”
It was the same with the prostitute Rahab. She was put right with God through her actions, by welcoming the Israelite spies and helping them to escape by a different road.
so he sent word to Rahab: “The men in your house have come to spy out the whole country! Bring them out!”
The city and everything in it must be totally destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only the prostitute Rahab and her household will be spared, because she hid our spies.
But Joshua spared the lives of the prostitute Rahab and all her relatives, because she had hidden the two spies that he had sent to Jericho. (Her descendants have lived in Israel to this day.)