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Joshua 6

Josh. 6:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But Joshua
Yhowshuwa` (Hebrew #3091)
from 3068 and 3467; Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader
KJV usage: Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare 1954, 3442.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-shoo'-ah
Origin: or Yhowshua {yeh-ho-shoo'-ah}
had said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto the two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
men
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
that had spied out
ragal (Hebrew #7270)
to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be a tale-bearer (i.e. slander); also (as denominative from 7272) to lead about
KJV usage: backbite, search, slander, (e-)spy (out), teach to go, view.
Pronounce: raw-gal'
Origin: a primitive root
the country
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, Go
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
into the harlot’s
zanah (Hebrew #2181)
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Pronounce: zaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton)
house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, and bring out
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
thence the woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
, and all that she hath, as ye sware
shaba` (Hebrew #7650)
propr. to be complete, but used only as a denominative from 7651; to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
KJV usage: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for 7646), take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.
Pronounce: shaw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
r unto her.
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Josh. 2:14• 14{i}And the men said to her, Our lives shall pay for yours, if ye do not make this our business known; and it shall be when Jehovah shall give us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.{/i} (Josh. 2:14)

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Josh. 6:17• 17{i}And the city shall be accursed, it and all that is in it, to Jehovah; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.{/i} (Josh. 6:17)
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Josh. 2:1‑24• 1{i}And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two spies secretly, saying, Go, see the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and they lay down there.{/i}
 2{i}And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men have come hither tonight from the children of Israel to search out the land.{/i}
 3{i}And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that have come to thee, who have come into thy house: for they have come to search out all the land.{/i}
 4{i}And the woman had taken and concealed the two men; and she said, Yes, the men did come unto me, but I knew not whence they were;{/i}
 5{i}and it came to pass when the gate had to be closed, at dark, that the men went out: I know not whither the men have gone. Pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.{/i}
 6{i}But she had taken them up to the roof, and secreted them under the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof.{/i}
 7{i}And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan, to the fords; and when they who pursued after them had gone out, they closed the gate.{/i}
 8{i}And before they had lain down, she went up to them upon the roof;{/i}
 9{i}and said to the men{/i}, I know, that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
 10For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
 12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by Jehovah, since I have showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness unto my father's house, {i}and give me a certain sign,{/i}
 13{i}that ye will let my father live, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that belong to them, and deliver our souls from death.{/i}
 14{i}And the men said to her, Our lives shall pay for yours, if ye do not make this our business known; and it shall be when Jehovah shall give us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.{/i}
 15{i}And she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the city-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.{/i}
 16{i}And she said to them, Go to the mountain, that the pursuers may not meet with you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; and afterwards go your way.{/i}
 17{i}And the men said to her, We will be quit of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.{/i}
 18{i}Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind in the window this line of scarlet thread by which thou hast let us down; and thou shalt gather to thee in the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household;{/i}
 19{i}and it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, —his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be innocent; but every one who shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be upon our head, if any hand be upon him.{/i}
 20{i}And if thou make known this our business, we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.{/i}
 21{i}And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed. And she bound the scarlet line in the window.{/i}
 22{i}And they went, and came to the mountain, and remained there three days, until the pursuers had returned; and the pursuers sought them all the way, and found them not.{/i}
 23{i}And the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and went over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and related to him everything that had happened to them.{/i}
 24{i}And they said to Joshua, Of a surety Jehovah has given the whole land into our hands, and even all the inhabitants of the land faint because of us.{/i} (Josh. 2:1‑24)
as ye sware unto her.
Josh. 2:12‑14,17‑20• 12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by Jehovah, since I have showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness unto my father's house, {i}and give me a certain sign,{/i}
 13{i}that ye will let my father live, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that belong to them, and deliver our souls from death.{/i}
 14{i}And the men said to her, Our lives shall pay for yours, if ye do not make this our business known; and it shall be when Jehovah shall give us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.{/i}
 17{i}And the men said to her, We will be quit of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.{/i}
 18{i}Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind in the window this line of scarlet thread by which thou hast let us down; and thou shalt gather to thee in the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household;{/i}
 19{i}and it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, —his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be innocent; but every one who shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be upon our head, if any hand be upon him.{/i}
 20{i}And if thou make known this our business, we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.{/i} (Josh. 2:12‑14,17‑20)
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Josh. 9:15,18‑20• 15And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them to let them live, and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
 18{i}And the children of Israel did not smite them, because the princes of the assembly had sworn unto them by Jehovah the God of Israel. Then all the assembly murmured against the princes.{/i}
 19{i}And all the princes said to all the assembly, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.{/i}
 20{i}This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath come upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.{/i} (Josh. 9:15,18‑20)
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2 Sam. 21:2,7• 2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them, ({i}Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites;{/i} and the children of Israel had sworn unto them, and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah)
 7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between them, {i}between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.{/i} (2 Sam. 21:2,7)
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Psa. 15:4• 4Despised in his eyes [is] the contemned [one],{HR}And the fearers of Jehovah he honoureth;{HR}That hath sworn to the injury of [himself] and hath not changed. (Psa. 15:4)
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Ezek. 17:13,16,18• 13and hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
 16As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
 18seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. (Ezek. 17:13,16,18)
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Ezek. 17:19• 19Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. (Ezek. 17:19)
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Heb. 11:31• 31By faith Rahab the harlot perished not along with the disobedient, having received the spies with peace. (Heb. 11:31)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Joshua said to the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house and bring out thence the woman, and all that she has, as ye swore unto her.

W. Kelly Translation

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But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.