Bad Girls of the Bible: Rehab – The “Harlot” Who Saved a Nation

If you’ve ever heard Rehab’s name in church, it almost always comes with a label: Rehab the prostitute. Out of all the things she did, all the roles she played, the one word attached to her forever is her occupation. She’s remembered as the “harlot of Jericho,” a shady woman living on the city wall, useful only as a prop in Israel’s conquest story. But dig a little deeper, and Rehab turns out not to be a disposable side character at all - she’s a hero, a strategist, and one of only five women named in the genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:5).