In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: ‘Flee like a bird to your mountain.
Joshua 2:16 - New International Version (Anglicised) She said to them, ‘Go to the hills so that the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they return, and then go 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. |
In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: ‘Flee like a bird to your mountain.
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?
So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall.
When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had searched all along the road and returned without finding them.
David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.