Quotes about Protection
unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.
— Joshua 2:18
If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
— Joshua 2:19
“Let it be as you say,” she replied, and she sent them away. And when they had gone, she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
— Joshua 2:21
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
— Joshua 4:23
But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it.
— Joshua 6:18
So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.
— Joshua 6:23
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
— Joshua 10:11
So Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and post men there to guard them.
— Joshua 10:18
so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
— Joshua 20:3
When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
— Joshua 20:4
Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.
— Joshua 20:5
These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
— Joshua 20:9