Rahab Facts for 3-8 Year Olds

Categories: Joshua

Rahab’s story is found in Joshua.
Her name means something like “spacious or broad.”
After 40 years of wandering through the wilderness, the people of Israel have come to the city of Jericho.
Like all ancient cities, thick walls surround it to keep the city safe.
Scholars think the walls may be two side-by-side walls with other walls that connect them and make them into rooms.
People live in these rooms, as does Rahab.
Rahab entertains travelers who bring news from the outside.
Meanwhile, Joshua sends two spies into the city to see what it’s like.
The spies find their way to Rahab’s house in the wall and spend the night.
Someone sees them and tells the King of Jericho.
The king orders Rahab to turn the men over.
Instead, she hides the men at great risk to herself.
When the officers come, Rahab says they were there, but when it became dark, the men left.
That’s not true, though, because she has hidden them up on the roof under the drying stalks of flax that she uses to make linen.
The officers run out, and as soon as they leave the city, the gates are closed.
Before the men fall asleep, Rahab says to them, “I know that the Lord has given you the land.”
People are scared of you.
“Your God is indeed God in heaven above and on earth below.”
Then Rahab makes a deal with them.
Since she has been kind to them, she asks them to swear that they will treat her and her family with the same kindness.
The men agree.
She then lets them down by a rope through the window, going outside the wall.
She tells them to go hide in the hill country for three days.
The men tell her to mark her family’s house by tying a red cord out the window.
After the men leave, she ties the red cord in the window.
When Jericho falls, the spies save Rahab and her family.
She marries one of the spies and is a great-great grandmother to King David.
Rahab is one of four women mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus.
Rahab is praised for her faith.