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Joshua 2:12-13 KJV
Joshua · chapter 2 · verses 12–13 · King James Version
12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token: 13And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.Joshua 2:12-13 · King James Version
Joshua 2:12-13 in context
10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:
13And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
14And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
15Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- kindnesschêçêdkindnessH2617 →
- father'sʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- brethrenʼâcha brother )H251 →
- sistersʼâchôwtha sister , literally and figuratively)H269 →
- delivernâtsalto snatch away, whether in a good or a bad senseH5337 →
- shewedʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- swearshâbaʻto seven oneselfH7650 →
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The matter is here settled between Rahab and the spies respecting the service she was now to do for them, and the favour they were afterwards to show to her. She secures them on condition that they should secure her. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-21