Why did Rahab throw her lot in with the people of God? This “throwing one’s lot in” with the people of God wasn’t something that she did on a whim or because the spies had as much sex appeal as Ian Flemmings’ James Bond. She threw her lot in with the people of God because she knew that the Lord God had given the people of Israel the land of Canaan. In doing that she had turned her back on her own life, and her own people and indeed her own gods.