40 BATTLES OF THE BIBLE.

Grandfather. By the wonderful works that the Lord
had done, she was led to despise the idols that her
countrymen worshipped, and to glorify God in her heart.
Therefore she shewed kindness to his servants, and asked
them in return to shew kindness to her, by saving her
alive along with her father and mother, her brothers and
sisters.

Johnnie. But surely they were not thinking of killing
her when she had been so good to them.

Grandfather. She did not expect them to kill her then,
but she knew that they were coming back to take the
city, and she believed that they would put all the in-
habitants to death.

Marianne. Did they promise to save her alive and’
her relations too ?

Grandfather. They did ; they told her to bring all her
father’s household into her own house, and engaged that
no one who was in that house would be hurt. That they
might be certain which house it was, they told her to
bind a line of scarlet cord to her window.

George. How did they get away from the town ?

Grandfather. Rahab let them out of her window by
a piece of scarlet cord, the same which she afterwards
bound on the window to secure her own safety. Her
house stood on the town wall, so that when they reached
the ground they were without the town. She told them
to go to the mountain, and to hide themselves there for
three days till the pursuers had returned, and then they
might go their way. They followed her advice, reached