On the return of the spies to Joshua, vv. 23–24
The spies crossed the Jordan in the same manner in which [they are] said above (part 2, quest. 1) to have crossed it; [and] returned gladly to their Leader Joshua, by whom [they had been] sent. To him, about their journey, they narrated all [the things] which had happened to them: how they had come into the city; [how], received hospitably by a certain harlot, Rahab by name, they had been preserved, and freed from the city and the King’s guard; what they had promised her, and by what sure cautions they had bound [her] with an oath; finally, how, at the persuasion of the same Rahab, they had hidden in the mountains, and what state both of the Canaanites and of the Jericho[ite] city itself they had come to know — partly by sight, partly (and indeed most of all) by the hearing of Rahab herself — and therefore they said: “The Lord has delivered all this land into our hands.” For what was on the very point of being, they narrate as if [already] done, on account of [their] most certain hope. “And all its inhabitants are laid low with fear” — [this] as to the receiving of the land (whether all Canaan, or the first part of it, which they had now scouted, namely the Jericho[ite] [region], as [was] said above, part 1 quest. 4) and as to the fear (as also above, part 2 quest. 17). Josephus adds, bk. 5 ch. 1, [that] this oath of the spies was narrated by Joshua to Eleazar the High Priest and to the Senate; and [that] these all approved [it] and held [it] ratified.