Joshua 2:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For yours — We will venture our lives for the security of yours. Our business — That is, this agreement of ours, and the condition of it, lest others under this pretence, should secure themselves. By which they shew both their piety and prudence in managing their oath with so much circumspection, that neither their own consciences might be ensnared, nor the publick justice obstructed.