Judges 18:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.

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  • Judg 18:14 : 14 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.
  • Judg 17:4-5 : 4 So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.
  • Judg 18:2 : 2 So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.
  • Gen 31:19 : 19 Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.
  • Exod 32:20 : 20 And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.
  • Judg 6:31 : 31 But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.
  • 1 Sam 4:11 : 11 And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.
  • 1 Sam 6:2-9 : 2 And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place? 3 And they said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it without an offering, but send him a sin-offering with it: then you will have peace again, and it will be clear to you why the weight of his hand has not been lifted from you. 4 Then they said, What sin-offering are we to send to him? And they said, Five gold images of the growths caused by your disease and five gold mice, one for every lord of the Philistines: for the same disease came on you and on your lords. 5 So make images of the growths caused by your disease and of the mice which are damaging your land; and give glory to the God of Israel: it may be that the weight of his hand will be lifted from you and from your gods and from your land. 6 Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away? 7 So now, take and make ready a new cart, and two cows which have never come under the yoke, and have the cows yoked to the cart, and take their young ones away from them: 8 And put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the gold images which you are sending as a sin-offering in a chest by its side; and send it away so that it may go. 9 If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.
  • 2 Kgs 19:18-19 : 18 And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction. 19 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hands, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you and only you, O Lord, are God.
  • Isa 46:1-2 : 1 Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast. 2 They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
  • Isa 46:7 : 7 They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.
  • Mic 5:13 : 13 I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

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  • Judg 18:10-16
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    10 When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.

    11 So six hundred men of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol went out armed with instruments of war.

    12 And they went up and put up their tents in Kiriath-jearim in Judah: so that place is named Mahaneh-dan to this day. It is to the west of Kiriath-jearim.

    13 From there they went on to the hill-country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

    14 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

    15 And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?

    16 And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.

  • Judg 18:18-27
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    18 And when they went into Micah's house and took out the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?

    19 And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

    20 Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.

    21 So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.

    22 When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,

    23 Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

    24 And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?

    25 And the children of Dan said to him, Say no more, or men of bitter spirit may make an attack on you, causing loss of your life and the lives of your people.

    26 Then the children of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he went back to his house.

    27 And they took that which Micah had made, and his priest, and came to Laish, to a people living quietly and without thought of danger, and they put them to the sword without mercy, burning down their town.

  • Judg 18:1-5
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    1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

    2 So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.

    3 When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

    4 And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.

    5 Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.

  • Judg 18:30-31
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    30 (And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.)

    31 And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • Judg 17:4-5
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    4 So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.

    5 And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.

  • Ezek 9:2
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    2 And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.

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    8 They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

  • Judg 18:7
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    7 Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.

  • 2 Kgs 25:18
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    18 And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;

  • Judg 20:10
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    10 And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

  • 2 Sam 5:21
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    21 And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.

  • 1 Sam 6:15
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    15 Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.

  • Josh 7:23
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    23 And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 24:6
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    6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of the Hittites under Hermon; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they came round to Zidon,

  • 1 Sam 5:2
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    2 They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon.

  • 2 Chr 5:4-5
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    4 All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

    5 They took up the ark and the Tent of meeting and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests, the Levites, took up.

  • 1 Sam 6:10
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    10 And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place:

  • Num 31:26-27
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    26 Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:

    27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

  • 1 Sam 6:18
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    18 And the gold mice, one for every town of the Philistines, the property of the five lords, walled towns as well as country places: and the great stone where they put the ark of the Lord is still in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite to this day.

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    25 And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.

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    30 And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.

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    10 And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's, and which were kept in the house of the Lord.

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    17 And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

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    53 Then the children of Israel came back from going after the Philistines, and took their goods from the tents.

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    2 And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

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    38 The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;