Judges 18

¹In 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 1:34Judg 17:6Judg 19:1Josh 19:40-48Judg 21:25

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 13:25Josh 2:1Judg 18:11Judg 18:8Num 13:17Gen 42:9Josh 17:15-18Josh 19:41Judg 13:2Judg 16:31-17:1

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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 27:22Matt 26:73Isa 22:16Judg 12:6

⁴And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 13:19John 10:12-13Judg 17:10Judg 17:121 Tim 3:32 Pet 2:14-152 Pet 2:3Acts 20:33Acts 8:18-21Hos 4:8-9

⁵And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 22:5Acts 8:10Isa 30:1Hos 4:122 Kgs 16:15Ezek 21:21Judg 17:13Judg 17:5Judg 18:14

⁶And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the Lord is your way wherein ye go. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 22:61 Kgs 22:121 Kgs 22:151 Thess 3:11Deut 11:12Jer 23:21-22Jer 23:32Ps 33:18

⁷Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 19:471 Sam 3:13Judg 18:27-281 Kgs 1:61 Pet 2:14Rev 18:7Rom 13:3

⁸And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 18:11Judg 18:2Judg 13:2Judg 16:31

⁹And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 2:23-24Num 13:30John 6:27Josh 18:31 Kgs 22:231 Kgs 22:31 Sam 4:92 Pet 1:10-112 Sam 10:12Heb 6:11-12

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 18:271 Tim 6:17Judg 18:7Deut 11:11-12Deut 2:29Deut 4:1Deut 8:7-9Exod 3:8Ezek 20:6Josh 6:16

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 18:16

¹²And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath–jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh–dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath–jearim. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 13:251 Chr 13:5-6Josh 15:601 Sam 7:12 Chr 1:4

¹³And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 24:30Josh 24:33Judg 17:1Judg 18:2-3Judg 19:1

¹⁴Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 17:5Judg 18:3-4Prov 19:271 Sam 14:28Isa 8:19-20

¹⁵And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 43:27John 14:271 Sam 17:222 Kgs 4:26Gen 37:14Luke 10:4-6Matt 10:12-13

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 18:11

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 18:14Judg 17:4-5Judg 18:21 Sam 4:111 Sam 6:2-92 Kgs 19:18-19Exod 32:20Gen 31:19Isa 46:1-2Isa 46:7

¹⁸And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁹And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 21:5Job 29:9Judg 17:10Mic 7:16Prov 30:322 Kgs 13:142 Kgs 6:212 Kgs 8:8-9Job 40:4-5Matt 23:9

²⁰And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 56:112 Pet 2:15-162 Pet 2:3Acts 20:33Ezek 13:19Hos 4:3Judg 17:10Phil 3:19Prov 30:15

²¹So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 21:171 Sam 11:52 Kgs 6:282 Sam 14:5Isa 22:1Ps 114:5

²⁴And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hab 2:18-19Isa 44:18-20Ps 115:8Acts 19:26Ezek 23:5Jer 50:38Jer 51:17Judg 17:13Rev 17:2

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 27:21 Sam 30:62 Sam 17:8Job 3:5

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 19:47Judg 18:7Judg 18:10Deut 33:22Josh 11:11

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 Beth–rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 10:6Judg 18:7Num 13:21Ps 7:22 Sam 14:6Dan 3:15-17Isa 23:12Isa 23:4Josh 11:8Judg 18:1

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 19:471 Kgs 15:20Gen 14:141 Kgs 12:29-30Gen 30:6Judg 20:12 Sam 17:11Gen 32:28

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 4:10-11Exod 2:221 Sam 4:2-3Deut 31:29Judg 13:1Judg 17:3Judg 17:5Ps 78:60-62Deut 17:2-7Deut 27:15

³¹And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 18:11 Sam 1:3Judg 19:181 Sam 4:4Jer 7:12Judg 21:21