search out all the country. And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. Now Rahab did something that manifested the new attitude that she had taken toward the God of Israel. She was an idolater; she had been worshiping idols all through the