The Promise to Rahab
Joshua 2:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
- KJV
- Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
- WEB
- Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
- ASV
- Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
- LSV
- And she causes them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house [is] in the side of the wall, and she [is] dwelling in the wall;
- YLT
- And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house [is] in the side of the wall, and in the wall she [is] dwelling;
- DBY
- 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.
- DRC
- Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.
- GNV
- Then she let them downe by a corde thorowe the windowe: for her house was vpon the towne wall, and she dwelt vpon the wall.
- JPS
- Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
- LXXE
- And she let them down by the window;
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַתּוֹרִדֵ֥ם בַּחֶ֖בֶל בְּעַ֣ד הַֽחַלּ֑וֹן כִּ֤י בֵיתָהּ֙ בְּקִ֣יר הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה וּבַֽחוֹמָ֖ה הִ֥יא יוֹשָֽׁבֶת׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ κατεχάλασεν αὐτοὺς διὰ τῆς θυρίδος,
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◆ Crossing the Jordan into Canaan
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Cross-references most cited first
- Acts 9:25One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
- 2 Corinthians 11:33But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
- 1 Samuel 19:12–17So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped. Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment. When Saul sent the…
- Joshua 6:20So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
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