Judges 18:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ In those days [there was] no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day [all their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

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  • Judg 17:6 : 6 In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
  • Judg 19:1 : 1 ¶ And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
  • Judg 21:25 : 25 In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
  • Josh 19:40-48 : 40 ¶ [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. 41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, 42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, 43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron, 44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, 45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon, 46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho. 47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too little] for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. 48 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
  • Judg 1:34 : 34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

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  • Judg 18:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

    3When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place]? and what hast thou here?

  • Judg 17:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.

    7¶ And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.

  • Judg 18:25-31
    7 verses
    77%

    25And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

    26And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

    27¶ And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

    28And [there was] no deliverer, because it [was] far from Zidon, and they had no business with [any] man; and it was in the valley that [lieth] by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

    29And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city [was] Laish at the first.

    30And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

    31And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • Judg 21:24-25
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    75%

    24And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

    25In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.

  • Josh 19:47-48
    2 verses
    74%

    47And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too little] for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

    48This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

  • Judg 19:1
    74%

    1¶ And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

  • Judg 18:21-23
    3 verses
    74%

    21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

    22[And] when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that [were] in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

    23And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

  • Judg 18:10-12
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    72%

    10When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.

    11And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.

    12And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim.

  • Num 1:38-39
    2 verses
    72%

    38Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

    39Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Dan, [were] threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

  • Judg 1:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.

    34And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

  • Josh 19:40-41
    2 verses
    70%

    40¶ [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

    41And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,

  • Hos 3:4
    70%

    4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:

  • Judg 18:7
    70%

    7¶ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.

  • Judg 18:14-17
    4 verses
    70%

    14¶ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

    15And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

    16And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.

    17And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.

  • Gen 49:16
    69%

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

  • Josh 18:2
    69%

    2¶ And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

  • 1 Kgs 22:47
    68%

    47[There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    67%

    16¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

  • Judg 21:3
    67%

    3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

  • Ezek 48:1
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    1¶ Now these [are] the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east [and] west; a [portion for] Dan.

  • 2 Chr 15:5
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    5And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

  • 1 Chr 5:17
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    17All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 27:22
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    22Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These [were] the princes of the tribes of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 15:3
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    3Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
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    16And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • Judg 13:25
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    25And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

  • Judg 5:17
    66%

    17Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

  • Judg 13:2
    66%

    2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] barren, and bare not.

  • Judg 20:27
    66%

    27And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days,

  • Num 26:42
    66%

    42These [are] the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These [are] the families of Dan after their families.