Judges 18:3-13

3 While they were at 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? What is your business here?"
4 He said to them, "Micah did such and such for me, and he hired me, and I have become his priest."
5 Then they said to him, "Inquire of God that we may know whether the mission we are undertaking will succeed."
6 The priest replied, "Go in peace. The mission you are on is under the eye of the Lord."
7 The five men went on, and when they came to Laish, they observed the people who were there living securely, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing on earth, and possessing wealth. Furthermore, they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with Aram.
8 When they came to their kinsfolk at Zorah and Eshtaol, they said to them, "What do you report?"
9 They said, "Come, let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, but enter in and possess the land.
10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad—God has indeed given it into your hands—a place where there is no lack of anything on earth."
11 Six hundred men of the Danite clan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol,
12 and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan to this day; it is west of Kiriath-jearim.
13 From there they passed on to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Cn Compare 18.10: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  • [b]. Meaning of Heb uncertain
  • [c]. Symmachus: Heb [with anyone]
  • [d]. That is [Camp of Dan]
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