¹⁴ “Our lives for your lives!”^(A) the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully^(B) when the Lord gives us the land.”

²⁴ the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, “Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.^(A)” ²⁵ So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared^(B) the man and his whole family.

⁴⁹ Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness^(A) to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.”

³⁹ As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life,^(A) or you must pay a talent^[a] of silver.’

David and Mephibosheth

9 David asked, “Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”^(A)

⁸ As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant^(A) with you before the Lord. If I am guilty, then kill^(B) me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”

²⁵ But Joshua spared^(A) Rahab the prostitute,^(B) with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho^(C)—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

¹⁷ The city and all that is in it are to be devoted^[a](A) to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute^(B) and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid^(C) the spies we sent.