New American Standard Bible 2020
Judges 18:7-14
7So the five men departed and came to 1Laish, and saw the people who were in it living in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting; for there was no 2oppressive ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. 8When they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you say?” 9And they said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you 3sit still? Do not hesitate to go, to enter, to take possession of the land. 10When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people with a spacious land; for God has handed it over to you, 4a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.”
11Then from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out. 12They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. Therefore they called that place 56Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is 7west of Kiriath-jearim. 13And they passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.
14Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish 8said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses 9an ephod and 10household idols, and a carved image and a cast metal image? Now then, consider what you should do.”
Notes
- 1. Judges 18:7 Josh 19:47; Judg 18:29 ↩
- 2. Judges 18:7 Or oppressive conqueror; lit possessor of oppression ↩
- 3. Judges 18:9 Lit be ↩
- 4. Judges 18:10 Deut 8:9 ↩
- 5. Judges 18:12 I.e., the camp of Dan ↩
- 6. Judges 18:12 Judg 13:25 ↩
- 7. Judges 18:12 Lit behind ↩
- 8. Judges 18:14 Lit answered and said ↩
- 9. Judges 18:14 Judg 17:5 ↩
- 10. Judges 18:14 Heb teraphim ↩
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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