Genesis 42:9
Hebrew Text— Genesis 42:9Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
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In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.
Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”
Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.
After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.
Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),
Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.
He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”
Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”
Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.
The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands: four cities.
The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.
You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?”
He entered and was passing through Jericho.
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.