Joshua 2:22 When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had searched all along the road and returned without finding them.

◄ Joshua 2:22 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had searched all along the road and returned without finding them.

English Standard Version
They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.

New American Standard Bible
They departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had sought them all along the road, but had not found them.

King James Bible
And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the two men went into the hill country and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. They searched all along the way, but did not find them.

International Standard Version
The scouts left for the hill country and remained there for three days until the search party returned. The search party searched the entire road, but was unable to find them.

American Standard Version
And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three days till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them through all the way, they found them not.

Darby Bible Translation
And they went, and came to the mountain, and remained there three days, until the pursuers had returned; and the pursuers sought them all the way, and found them not.

Young's Literal Translation
And they go, and come in to the mountain, and abide there three days until the pursuers have turned back; and the pursuers seek in all the way, and have not found.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:22-24 The report the spies brought was encouraging. All the people of the country faint because of Israel; they have neither wisdom to yield, nor courage to fight. Those terrors of conscience, and that sense of Divine wrath, which dismay the ungodly, but bring not to repentance, are fearful forebodings of approaching destruction. But grace yet abounds to the chief of sinners. Let them, without delay, flee to Christ, and all shall be well.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

21. she bound the scarlet line in the window—probably soon after the departure of the spies. It was not formed, as some suppose, into network, as a lattice, but simply to hang down the wall. Its red color made it conspicuous, and it was thus a sign and pledge of safety to Rahab's house, as the bloody mark on the lintels of the houses of the Israelites in Egypt to that people.