Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
Ver. 18. And thou shalt bring thy father, &c.] Who, if not there found when we storm the town, shall perish at their own peril. So shall all not found to be of the family of faith, and within God's doors. The devil sweeps all that are out of the covenant.