22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her." 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day
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Looking for the positive - what impresses me is that the Israelites not only spared the life of Rahab and her family, they took them in and accepted them. She was a prostitute, but they did not judge her for that. Instead, they gave her new life and acceptance because of her faith in them. A foreshadowing of what Christ would do for us all.
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