She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.
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She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.
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And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
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And she said: 'According unto your words, so be it.' And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
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Passages linked to Joshua 2:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
- Matthew 7:24 “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
- John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, scarlet colored.
Or, scarlet colored.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Forthwith, partly, that the spies might see it hung…
Forthwith, partly, that the spies might see it hung out before their departure, and so the better know it at some distance; partly, lest some accident might occasion a mistake or neglect about it; and partly, for her own comfort, it being pleasant and encouraging to her to have in her eye the pledge of her deliverance.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And she said, according to your words, so be…
And she said, according to your words, so be it,.... She agreed, that if the conditions required were not performed, they would be quit of their oath, but if they were, she expected it would be fulfilled:
and she sent them away, and they departed; took their leave of each other:
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and she bound the scarlet line in the window; immediately, as Abarbinel thinks, and in the sight of the spies, that they might see that she conformed to their direction, and that they might take notice where she fastened it; and that she herself might, at the sight of it, be put in mind of the design of it, and be an encouragement to her faith as to the safety of her and her father's house; and it being a thing so trifling and insignificant in itself, would not be taken notice of by the inhabitants, or be thought to be done with any design; though, according to the instruction of the spies, it seems as if it was to be done when they came into the land, and into the city, and which seems most likely that it was then done.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In the window - Forthwith, partly that the spies…
In the window - Forthwith, partly that the spies might see it hung out before their departure, and so the better know it at some distance; partly lest some accident might occasion a neglect about it.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jos 2:21. In the window — Forthwith, partly that…
Jos 2:21. In the window — Forthwith, partly that the spies might see it hung out before their departure, and so the better know it at some distance; partly lest some accident might occasion a neglect about it.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain she bound the scarlet line in the window--probably soon…
she bound the scarlet line in the window--probably soon after the departure of the spies. It was not formed, as some suppose, into network, as a lattice, but simply to hang down the wall. Its red color made it conspicuous, and it was thus a sign and pledge of safety to Rahab's house, as the bloody mark on the lintels of the houses of the Israelites in Egypt to that people.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. And she bound the scarlet line in the…
21. And she bound the scarlet line in the window — This statement is here made to complete the account, not to indicate that she bound the line in the window as soon as the spies were gone. She did this on the approach of the Hebrew host, in season to secure the deliverance of which this was the token. To have displayed it immediately would have been unnecessary, and would have incurred the suspicions of her watchful countrymen.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And she bound the scarlet cord in the window.…
And she bound the scarlet cord in the window. Not necessarily at once, but when the time for the precaution arrived.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain scarlet line
scarlet line
The scarlet line of Rahab speaks, by its color, of safety through sacrifice. Heb 9:19; Heb 9:22.
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