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Hebrew Names Version

Joshua 2:13

and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Hospitality;   Kindness;   Oath;   Reconnoissance;   Treaty;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Rahab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   Israel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Architecture in the Biblical Period;   Joshua, the Book of;   Mercy, Merciful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hoshea;   Jericho;   Joshua;   Rahab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Rahab ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jericho;   Rahab, Rachab ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jericho;   Rahab;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Shittim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jer'icho;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Relationships, Family;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and save us from death.”
King James Version
And 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.
Lexham English Bible
and you will spare my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all that belongs to them; you will deliver our lives from death."
English Standard Version
that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."
New Century Version
Allow my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all of their families to live. Save us from death."
New English Translation
that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death."
Amplified Bible
and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, along with everyone who belongs to them, and let us all live."
New American Standard Bible
and spare my father and my mother, and my brothers and my sisters, and all who belong to them, and save our lives from death."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And that yee will saue aliue my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that yee will deliuer our soules from death.
Legacy Standard Bible
and preserve my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters alive, with all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."
Contemporary English Version
that you won't let your people kill my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and their families.
Complete Jewish Bible
that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers and sisters and all who are theirs, so that we won't be killed."
Darby Translation
that ye will let my father live, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that belong to them, and deliver our souls from death.
Easy-to-Read Version
Tell me that you will allow my family to live—my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all their families. Promise me that you will save us from death."
George Lamsa Translation
And that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that belongs to us, and deliver our lives from death.
Good News Translation
Promise me that you will save my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families! Don't let us be killed!"
Literal Translation
and shall keep alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that is to them, and shall deliver our souls from death.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that ye wyl let my father lyue, and my mother, my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue, and delyuer oure soules from death.
American Standard Version
and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
Bible in Basic English
And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And that ye shall saue alyue both my father and my mother, my brethren and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that ye shall delyuer our soules from death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.'
King James Version (1611)
And that ye will saue aliue my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue, and deliuer our liues from death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and save alive the house of my father, my mother, and my brethren, and all my house, and all that they have, and ye shall rescue my soul from death.
English Revised Version
and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
Berean Standard Bible
that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that ye saue my fadir and modir, and my britheren and sistris, and alle thingis that ben herne, and dilyuere oure lyues fro deeth.
Young's Literal Translation
and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.'
Update Bible Version
and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [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.
World English Bible
and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
New King James Version
and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death."
New Living Translation
when Jericho is conquered, you will let me live, along with my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families."
New Life Bible
Do not kill my father and mother and my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them. Save us from death."
New Revised Standard
that you will spare my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and will save alive my father and my mother, and my brethren and my sisters, and all that they have, - and will deliver our souls from death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.
Revised Standard Version
and save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."

Contextual Overview

8 Before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof; 9 and she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you is fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Sea of Suf before you, when you came out of Mitzrayim; and what you did to the two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden, to Sichon and to `Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on eretz beneath. 12 Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token; 13 and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death. 14 The men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you. 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall. 16 She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way. 17 The men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my father: It is observable that in this enumeration of her kindred, there is no mention made of a husband. It is most likely that she was a single woman or widow, who obtained an honest livelihood by keeping a house for the entertainment of strangers; and not a woman of ill fame, as some have supposed. The spies sent on this occasion were certainly some of the most confidential persons that Joshua had in his host, and their errand was of the greatest importance; is it then not most likely that they lodged at an inn? Joshua 2:13

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:12 - my father's Joshua 2:18 - thy father

Cross-References

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Kush, Mitzrayim, Put, and Kana`an.
Isaiah 11:11
It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Ashshur, and from Mitzrayim, and from Patros, and from Kush, and from `Elam, and from Shin`ar, and from Hamat, and from the islands of the sea.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters,.... She makes no mention of any husband or children she had, as harlots seldom have, and which seems to confirm her character as such; and so Abarbinel observes, that her father's house is only mentioned to tell us that she had no husband, for she was an harlot and had no children, and puts her father and mother in the room of an husband, and her brethren and sisters in the room of children:

and all that they have; not their substance only, but their children more especially, the children of her brethren and sisters:

and deliver our lives from death; here she manifestly includes herself, and requests the saving of her life, and the lives of all her relations, when she knew the inhabitants of the city would be all put to death upon the taking of it: thus she provided for the safety of her family, as Noah in another case and manner did, Hebrews 11:7; and indeed seemed more concerned for them than for herself; and thus souls sensible of their own estate and condition, by nature and grace, are very solicitous for the salvation of their relations and friends, Romans 9:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 2:13. Deliver our lives from death. — She had learned, either from the spies or otherwise, that all the inhabitants of the land were doomed to destruction, and therefore she obliges them to enter into a covenant with her for the preservation of herself and her household.


 
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