Solomon's Wisdom

¹⁶ Then two prostitutes came to the king ^(A)and stood before him.

^16 (A)when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I ^(B)make them know the statutes of God and his laws.”

Jephthah Delivers Israel

11 Now ^(A)Jephthah the Gileadite was ^(B)a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

Rahab Hides the Spies

2 And Joshua the son of Nun ^(A)sent^[a] two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of ^(B)a prostitute whose name was ^(C)Rahab and lodged there.

¹⁷ “None of the ^(A)daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none ^(B)of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.

² And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the chiefs and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying,

^29 (A)“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.

¹³ The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.