Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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, I Samuel 1:26, etc.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Joshua 2:14:
Joshua 2:12
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