3. So the king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab: “Bring out the men who have come into your house, for they have come here to spy out the whole land.”
4. Rahab had hidden the two men, but she replied, “Yes, the men were here earlier, but I didn’t know where they were from.
5. They left the town at dusk, as the gates were about to close. I don’t know where they went. If you hurry, you can probably catch up with them.”
6. (Actually, she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them beneath bundles of flax she had laid out.)
7. So the king’s men went looking for the spies along the road leading to the shallow crossings of the Jordan River. And as soon as the king’s men had left, the gate of Jericho was shut.
8. Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them.
9. “I know the lord has given you this land,” she told them. “We are all afraid of you. Everyone in the land is living in terror.