Judges 1:25
And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
Cross-reference
Joshua 6:22–25
Parallel
In Joshua 6:22-25, Rahab and her family are spared during Jericho's fall—the same pattern of saving an informant that occurs here.
Joshua 6:25
Parallel
Joshua 6:25 explicitly states Rahab was saved alive—a direct parallel to the man and his family being spared here.
Joshua 2:14
Allusion
Joshua 2:14 records the spies' oath to spare Rahab—the earlier promise that prefigures the informant's deliverance here.