Judges 18:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

(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.)

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  • Exod 2:22 : 22 And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.
  • Judg 13:1 : 1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
  • Judg 17:3 : 3 And he gave back the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, and his mother said, I have made the silver holy to the Lord from me for my son, to make a pictured image and a metal image.
  • Judg 17:5 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 4:2-3 : 2 And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field. 3 And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.
  • 1 Sam 4:10-11 : 10 So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword. 11 And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.
  • Ps 78:60-62 : 60 So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men; 61 And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater. 62 He gave his people up to the sword, and was angry with his heritage.
  • Ps 105:44-45 : 44 And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage; 45 So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
  • Exod 18:3 : 3 And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land:
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
  • Deut 17:2-7 : 2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement, 3 By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders; 4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel; 5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead. 6 On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.
  • Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Deut 31:16 : 16 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.
  • Deut 31:29 : 29 For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.

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  • Judg 18:31
    79%

    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 18:29
    75%

    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.

  • Judg 18:14-27
    14 verses
    75%

    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?

    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 18:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    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?

  • 1 Kgs 12:29-31
    3 verses
    71%

    29 And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.

    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.

    31 And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

  • Judg 17:5
    70%

    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.

  • Num 1:38-39
    2 verses
    68%

    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 18:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    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.

  • Josh 19:47-48
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    68%

    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 2:25
    66%

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

  • Num 7:66
    66%

    66 On the tenth day Ahiezer; the son of Ammishaddai, chief of the children of Dan:

  • Josh 19:40
    65%

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

  • Num 1:12
    65%

    12 From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    65%

    41 So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    65%

    9 And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • Josh 22:11
    64%

    11 And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    64%

    10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

  • Gen 49:16
    64%

    16 Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

  • Judg 1:34
    64%

    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 Chr 27:22
    64%

    22 Of Dan, Azarel, the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    64%

    16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • 1 Chr 2:2
    64%

    2 Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

  • Num 10:25
    64%

    25 And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

  • 2 Chr 11:15
    64%

    15 And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    64%

    7 And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

  • Num 34:22
    64%

    22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
    63%

    7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,