Spies

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”

Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.’”

After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

So the king’s men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.

Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.

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.

They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

…and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”

David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.

Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.

So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?