Joshua 2:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.””
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““Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and she saith to them, `To the mountain go, lest the pursuers come upon you; and ye have been hidden there three days till the turning back of the pursuers, and afterwards ye go on your way.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 2:16 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 2:22So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.
- 1 Samuel 23:14And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:29And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
- Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
- James 2:25In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?
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