Devine Scripture

Joshua 2:17

Joshua chapter 2 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the men said unto her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the men said unto her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

Context

v.16And 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.

v.17This passage

v.18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Leviticus 19:11

    Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

  • Joshua 2:20

    But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

  • 2 Samuel 21:1

    And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

  • 2 Samuel 21:7

    But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

  • Numbers 30:2

    When a man voweth a vow unto Jehovah, or sweareth an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

  • Genesis 24:3

    and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: