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Joshua and Rahab
How Joshua and Rahab are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Joshua and Rahab met.
Joshua sent the spies whom Rahab hid in Jericho. When the city fell, Joshua kept the oath they had sworn to her and saved Rahab and her father's household alive.
Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly
Joshua 2:1, King James Version
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive
Joshua 6:25, King James Version
Where they cross: Joshua 6:22-25
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Joshua 2:1
1And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua 6:22-25
22But 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.
23And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
24And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
25And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
King James Version