Joshua 2:15
Good News Translation
Rahab lived in a house built into the city wall, so she let the men down from the window by a rope.

New Revised Standard Version
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the outer side of the city wall and she resided within the wall itself.

Contemporary English Version
Rahab's house was built into the town wall, and one of the windows in her house faced outside the wall. She gave the spies a rope, showed them the window, and said, "Use this rope to let yourselves down to the ground outside the wall.

New American Bible
Then she let them down through the window with a rope; for she lived in a house built into the city wall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

she let them

1 Samuel 19:12-17 She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped. . . .

Acts 9:25 But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

2 Corinthians 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and so escaped his hands.

for her house

Joshua 6:20 So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was over against him: and they took the city,

Context
The Promise to Rahab
14They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth. 15Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.16And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.…
Cross References
Joshua 2:14
They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.

Joshua 2:16
And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.

1 Samuel 19:12
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.

Joshua 2:14
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