When Absalom’s men came to the woman at the house, they asked, ‘Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?’ The woman answered them, ‘They crossed over the brook.’ The men searched but found no-one, so they returned to Jerusalem.
Joshua 2:22 - New International Version (Anglicised) 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They left and went to the mountain and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned, who had searched all along the way without finding them. American Standard Version (1901) And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not. Common English Bible The spies went out and entered the highlands. They stayed there for three days until those chasing them came back. Those chasing them had searched all along the road but never found them. Catholic Public Domain Version And truly, walking on, they arrived at the mountains, and they stayed there for three days, until those who had been pursuing them returned. For having sought them along the entire way, they did not find them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three days till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them through all the way, they found them not. |
When Absalom’s men came to the woman at the house, they asked, ‘Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?’ The woman answered them, ‘They crossed over the brook.’ The men searched but found no-one, so they returned to Jerusalem.
‘Agreed,’ she replied. ‘Let it be as you say.’ So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
Then the two men started back. They went down out of the hills, forded the river and came to Joshua son of Nun and told him everything that had happened to them.