God’s Word Translation
Judges 18:13
13From there they marched to the mountains of Ephraim as far as Micah’s house.
Judges 18:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
- New International Version (NIV)From there they went on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah’s house.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And they passed from there to the mountains of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
Context of Judges 18:13
11So 600 men from the tribe of Dan left Zorah and Eshtaol armed for war. 12They camped at Kiriath Jearim in Judah. This is why the place just west of Kiriath Jearim is still called Mahaneh Dan [The Camp of Dan] today. From there they marched to the mountains of Ephraim as far as Micah’s house. 14Then the five men who had gone to spy throughout the land around Laish spoke up. They said to the other men of Dan, “Do you know that there’s an ephod, a carved idol, a metal idol, and household idols in these houses? What do you think we should do?” 15So they stopped and entered Micah’s house and greeted the young Levite.
Read all of Judges 18Judges 18:13 word by word
וַיַּעַבְר֥וּ מִשָּׁ֖ם הַר־אֶפְרָ֑יִם וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ עַד־בֵּ֥ית מִיכָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Judges 18:13
- Judges 18:2So all the families of Dan sent out five qualified men from Zorah and Eshtaol. They were sent to spy throughout the land and explore it. They were told, “Go and explore the land!” They came to Micah’s house in the mountains of Ephraim. They spent the night there.
- Judges 17:1There was a man named Micah from the mountain region of Ephraim.
- Judges 19:1In those days when Israel didn’t have a king, there was a Levite who lived in a remote area in the mountains of Ephraim. He took a woman from Bethlehem in Judah to be his concubine.
- Joshua 24:30He was buried on his own land at Timnath Serah in the mountains of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
Commentaries on Judges 18:13
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-31The migration of the Danites (compare Joshua 19:40–48) shows the tribe's failure to follow God's covenant and reflects Israel's decline. Micah's personal heresy (Judges 17:4–5) grew into the apostasy of the entire tribe (18:30–31). The initial covenant failure (Judges 17:19–36) led to social breakdown during the time of Jephthah and Samson (Judges 11–16). Eventually, law and order gave way to banditry and pillaging (Judges 18:27–28).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-2111-21. there went from thence of the family of the Danites ... six hundred men--This was the collective number of the men who were equipped with arms to carry out this expeditionary enterprise, without including the families and furniture of the emigrants (Jud 18:21). Their journey led them through the territory of Judah, and their first halting place was "behind," that is, on the west of Kirjath-jearim, on a spot called afterwards "the camp of Dan."…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Judges 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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