The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
⛓ Read Joshua 6 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Joshua 6:17,22-25 records Rahab and her household being spared at Jericho's fall because she hid the messengers. James 2:25's commendation of Rahab presupposes this deliverance as the vindication of her works. Supplies the outcome of the act James cites.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The anathema may carry the cherem ('devoted to destruction') sense from Jericho, where what is accursed is set apart for God's judgment and contaminates the camp. Coheres with treating the false gospel as defiling, but the curse-formulary of Deuteronomy is the nearer source, so low/contested.
Low confidence