Judges 18:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Judg 13:25 : 25 And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  • Josh 2:1 : 1 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.
  • Num 13:17 : 17 So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;
  • Judg 18:8 : 8 So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you?
  • Judg 18:11 : 11 So six hundred men of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol went out armed with instruments of war.
  • Judg 19:1 : 1 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.
  • Judg 19:18 : 18 And he said to him, We are on our way from Beth-lehem-judah to the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim: I came from there and went to Beth-lehem-judah: now I am on my way back to my house, but no man will take me into his house.
  • Prov 20:18 : 18 Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
  • Luke 14:31 : 31 Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
  • Gen 42:9 : 9 Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.
  • Judg 16:31-17:1 : 31 Then his brothers and his father's people came down and took him up and put his body to rest in the earth between Zorah and Eshtaol in the resting-place of Manoah his father. And he had been judge of Israel for twenty years. 1 Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.
  • Josh 17:15-18 : 15 Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you. 16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel. 17 Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only, 18 For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the woodland and cut down ... its outskirts will be yours ... get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages ... strong.
  • Josh 19:41 : 41 And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

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  • 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?

  • Judg 18:21-31
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    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.

    28 And they had no saviour, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with Aram; and it was in the valley which is the property of Beth-rehob. And building up the town again they took it for their living-place.

    29 And they gave the town the name of Dan, after Dan their father, who was the son of Israel: though the town had been named Laish at first.

    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.

  • 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.

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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.

    17 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.

    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?

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    47 (But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.)

    48 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

  • Judg 17:7-9
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    7 Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

    8 And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

    9 And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem-judah, and I am looking for a living-place.

  • Num 1:38-39
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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;

    39 Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered.

  • Judg 18:7-8
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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.

    8 So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you?

  • 2 And it was said to the king of Jericho, See, some men have come here tonight from the children of Israel with the purpose of searching out the land.

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    40 For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out;

    41 And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh

  • 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,

  • 34 And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;

  • 1 Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.

  • 21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.

  • 25 On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.

  • 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.

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    15 And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.

    16 Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • 22 And they went into the hill-country and were there three days, till the men who had gone after them had come back; and those who went after them were searching for them everywhere without coming across them.

  • 35 And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight.

  • 18 And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;

  • 24 And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there.

  • 25 And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

  • 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.