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Joshua 2:8
“Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof;”
Verse in context — Joshua 2
But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.
The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof;
and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
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Israel conquers and settles the Promised Land under Joshua’s leadership.
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