Joshua 2:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

But 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.

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  • 2 Sam 17:19 : 19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.
  • 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
  • 1 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
  • 2 Kgs 11:2 : 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons who were slain. She hid him and his nurse in the bedroom away from Athaliah, so he was not killed.
  • Jer 36:26 : 26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.
  • Matt 24:17 : 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.
  • Col 3:3 : 3 For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Heb 11:23 : 23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's command.
  • Jas 2:25 : 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
  • Exod 1:15-21 : 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools; if it is a son, then you shall kill him: but if it is a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive? 19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and give birth before the midwives come to them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
  • Exod 2:2 : 2 And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
  • Deut 22:8 : 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house if any man falls from it.
  • Josh 2:8 : 8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold.

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