NKJV

Old Testament


The Book of Joshua: Chapter 2:15-22-24

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall. And she said to them, "Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward you may go your way." So the men said to her: "We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear, unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household to your own home. So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him. And if you tell this business of ours, then we will be free from your oath which you made us swear." Then she said, "According to your words, so be it." And she sent them away, and they departed. And she bound the scarlet cord in the window.

They departed and went to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but did not find them. So the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed over; and they came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them. And they said to Joshua, "Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands, for indeed all the inhabitants of the country are fainthearted because of us."

New Testament

The Gospel according to Luke: Chapter 1:67-80

Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

"Blessed is the Lord God of Israel,
For He has visited and redeemed His people,


And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David,


As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
Who have been since the world began,


That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,


To perform the mercy promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,

The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:

To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,


In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.


And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest;
For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,


To give knowledge of salvation to His people
By the remission of their sins,


Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;


To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
To guide our feet into the way of peace."


So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.