Joshua 2:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)”
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“(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and she hath caused them to go up on the roof, and hideth them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 2:6 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 1:15Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
- Exodus 2:2and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
- Deuteronomy 22:8If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
- Joshua 2:8Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- 2 Samuel 17:19Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
- 1 Kings 18:4for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
- 1 Kings 18:13Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
- 2 Kings 11:2But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.
- Jeremiah 36:26Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
- Matthew 24:17Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
- Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- Hebrews 11:23By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
- 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?
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).