Josué 2:14

Darby's French Translation

Et les hommes lui dirent: Nos vies payeront pour vous, si vous ne divulguez pas notre affaire, et il arrivera que lorsque l'Éternel nous aura donné le pays, nous userons de bonté et de vérité envers toi.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et ces hommes lui r�pondirent: Nous exposerons notre personne pour vous � la mort, si vous ne divulguez pas notre entreprise; et quand l'�ternel nous donnera le pays, nous te traiterons avec bont� et fid�lit�.

Louis Segond (1910)
Ces hommes lui r�pondirent: Nous sommes pr�ts � mourir pour vous, si vous ne divulguez pas ce qui nous concerne; et quand l'Eternel nous donnera le pays, nous agirons envers toi avec bont� et fid�lit�.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et ces hommes lui r�pondirent : Nos personnes r�pondront pour vous jusques � la mort, pourvu que vous ne nous d�celiez point en cette affaire; et quand l'Eternel nous aura donn� le pays nous userons envers toi de gratuit� et de v�rit�.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for yours: Heb. instead of you to die, 1 Kings 20:39

when the Lord: Joshua 6:17, Joshua 6:25, Genesis 24:49, Numbers 10:29-32, Judges 1:24, Judges 1:25, 1 Samuel 20:8, 2 Samuel 9:1, Proverbs 18:24, Matthew 5:7

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil Deuteronomy 7:2 - make no Joshua 2:19 - his blood Proverbs 11:13 - he Acts 23:22 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men answered her,.... The two spies:

our life for yours; or "our souls in your stead to die" i; that is, we engage for the security of your lives, should they be in danger; we promise to die in your room and stead rather than you should: this they said not as though their lives would be required of them for them, but to assure her of the safety of her and her father's house, on the following condition:

if ye utter not this our business; not their business in searching the land, for the discovery of that would be of little avail after they were gone; for it was known already that there were persons come to search the land; but "this our word" k, what they were going to say to her and bid her do, as a sign of safety to her and hers; which, if she discovered, others would give out the same sign, and then they could not promise her safety; or if she did not take care to bring in her father, mother, brethren, and sisters, and theirs into her house, they could not engage to protect them:

and it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land; not the whole land, but Jericho and the laud about it, that when that part of it should be delivered into their hands:

that we will deal kindly and truly with thee; "kindly", by sparing her and her father's house; "truly", by faithfully performing the promise and oath they made to her.

i נפשנו תחתיכם למות "anima nostra pro vobis ad moriendum", Pagninus, Montanus. k את דברנו זה "verbum nostrum hoc", Pagninus, Montanus; "sermonem nostrum hunc", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our life for yours - See the margin. This is (see Joshua 2:17) a form of oath, in which God is in effect invoked to punish them with death if they did not perform their promise to save Rahab’s life. Compare the more common form of oath, 1 Samuel 1:26, etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 2:14. Our life for yours — "May our life be destroyed if we suffer yours to be injured!" This is what was anciently called in our country pledging - staking, a man's life for that of his neighbour or friend.