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The Crimson Cord: Rahab's Story
Christian fiction
The Crimson Cord: Rahab's Story
Book 1 of the Daughters of the Promised Land series
364 pages · First published 2015
Rahab survives in Jericho by operating an inn and using the limited choices available to a woman marked by her past. When Hebrew spies enter the city, she recognizes that their God may be more powerful than Jericho’s walls and risks everything to hide them from the king’s men. Her decision places her family’s survival on a scarlet cord and requires faith in a people whose army is approaching her home. Jill Eileen Smith expands the biblical account into historical fiction about shame, courage, family, and the extraordinary future opened by Rahab’s choice to trust Israel’s God.
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Forced prostitution and sexual exploitation; sexual slavery; abusive marriage; gambling debt; coercion and repeated unwanted sexual encounters; war/conquest violence; death and grief; religious conversion themes.
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