2. Someone told the king of Jericho, “Some men from Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”
3. So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house. They have come to spy out our whole land.”
4. But the woman had hidden the two men. She said, “They did come here, but I didn’t know where they came from.
5. In the evening, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know where they went, but if you go quickly, maybe you can catch them.”
6. (The woman had taken the men up to the roof and had hidden them there under stalks of flax that she had spread out.)
7. So the king’s men went out looking for the spies on the road that leads to the crossings of the Jordan River. The city gate was closed just after the king’s men left the city.
8. Before the spies went to sleep for the night, Rahab went up to the roof.
9. She said to them, “I know the Lord has given this land to your people. You frighten us very much. Everyone living in this land is terribly afraid of you