Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
⛓ Read Joshua 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Rahab lets the spies down by a rope through her window because her house was built into the city wall. 'Let him down through the wall' matches the lowering-through-the-wall escape motif precisely; high volume on the wall + lowering imagery.
High confidenceThe escape from Damascus, 'let down in a basket through a window by the wall,' replays Rahab lowering the spies by a rope through her window in the city wall. The shared escape-through-the-wall-window motif suggests Paul casts his flight in the idiom of the rescued/rescuing agent. Volume rests on the distinctive window-and-wall lowering.
Medium confidence