Judges 18:2 “So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Z…”

Judges 18:2

So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And 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.

World English Bible

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

American Standard Version

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore the children of Dan sent of their familie, fiue men out of their coastes, euen men expert in warre, out of Zorah and Eshtaol, to viewe the lande and search it out, and saide vnto them, Goe, and search out the lande. Then they came to mount Ephraim to the house of Michah and lodged there.

Darby Translation

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men of their whole number, men of valour, from Zoreah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to examine it; and they said to them, Go, examine the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

Young's Literal Translation

And the sons of Dan send, out of their family, five men of them, men, sons of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to traverse the land, and to search it, and they say unto them, 'Go, search the land;' and they come into the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodge there.

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“Zorah”

Judges 13:25 Judges 18:8 Judges 18:11 Judges 13:2 Genesis 42:9 Joshua 19:41

Judges 13:25 · BSB

And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 18:8 · BSB

When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”

Judges 18:11 · BSB

So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.

Judges 13:2 · BSB

Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

Genesis 42:9 · BSB

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

Joshua 19:41 · BSB

The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

“to spy”

Joshua 2:1 Numbers 13:17 Proverbs 20:18 Luke 14:31

Joshua 2:1 · BSB

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Numbers 13:17 · BSB

When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

Proverbs 20:18 · BSB

Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.

Luke 14:31 · BSB

Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

“mount”

Judges 19:1 Judges 19:18 Joshua 17:15–18 Judges 17:1

Judges 19:1 · BSB

Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Judges 19:18 · BSB

The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me int…

Joshua 17:15–18 · BSB

Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

Judges 17:1 · BSB

Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

3And while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”

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