Joshua 2:6
Joshua chapter 2 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But 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.
Context
v.5and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will overtake them.
v.6This passage
v.7And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 22:8
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.
- Exodus 1:15
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
- Jeremiah 36:26
And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.
- James 2:25
And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
- Joshua 2:8
And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
- 2 Samuel 17:19
And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.