Rahab
Rahab was a woman of Jericho who hid Israel’s spies and was spared when the city fell, later named in the line of Christ.
When two Israelite spies entered Jericho, Rahab hid them on her roof and sent their pursuers the wrong way, confessing that she had heard of the LORD’s mighty acts and believed.
She asked the spies to spare her family, and they told her to hang a scarlet cord from her window. When the walls fell, she and her household alone were saved.
Rahab married into Israel and appears in the genealogy of Jesus and in the New Testament’s roll of faith — a striking picture of grace reaching an outsider.
Original BibleDawn profile. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy. Scripture quoted from the public-domain Berean Standard Bible.