Judges 18:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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,

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    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.

  • Judg 18:1-3
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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?

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

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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;

  • 14 And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

  • 42 So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

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

  • 31 The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.

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

  • 5 And when it was the time for shutting the doors at dark, they went out; I have no idea where the men went: but if you go after them quickly, you will overtake them.

  • 16 The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

  • 14 So they went on their way; and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.

  • 16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.

  • 14 And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

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

  • 25 And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.

  • 22 While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.

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