Joshua 2:16 ““Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not fi…”

Joshua 2:16

“Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

World English Bible

She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”

American Standard Version

And 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And she said vnto them, Goe you into the mountaine, least the pursuers meete with you, and hide your selues there three dayes, vntill the pursuers be returned: then afterwarde may yee goe your way.

Darby Translation

And she said to them, Go to the mountain, that the pursuers may not meet with you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; and afterwards go your way.

Young's Literal Translation

and she saith to them, 'To the mountain go, lest the pursuers come upon you; and ye have been hidden there three days till the turning back of the pursuers, and afterwards ye go on your way.'

Bible in Basic English

And she said to them, Get away into the hill-country, or the men who have gone after you will overtake you; keep yourselves safe there for three days, till the searchers have come back, and then go on your way.

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Cross references

“Get you”

1 Samuel 23:14 Joshua 2:22 1 Samuel 23:29 Psalm 11:1

1 Samuel 23:14 · BSB

And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

Joshua 2:22 · BSB

So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

1 Samuel 23:29 · BSB

And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.

Psalm 11:1 · BSB

In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

Also

James 2:25

James 2:25 · BSB

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.

17The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear

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