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Judges 18:3
King James Version(KJV)

3.)When 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?

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 18:4 (NASB)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] He said to them, "Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me and I have become his priest."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 18:5 (KJV)
And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 18:6
New International Version (NIV)

The priest answered them, “Go in peace. Your journey has the LORD’s approval.”

 

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Judges 18:7 (NASB)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were in it living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

 

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Judges 18:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] When they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, "What do you report?"

 

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Judges 18:9 (KJV)
And 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.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 18:10 “When you go, you are to come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is spacious. For Yah has given it into your hands, a place in which there is no lack of any matter which is on the earth.”

 

[Desertsrose]

Judges 18:11

Then from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 18:12 And they went up and encamped in Qiryath Ye‛arim in Yehuḏah. Therefore they call that place Maḥanĕh Ḏan to this day. See, it is west of Qiryath Ye‛arim.

 

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Judges 18:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

 

[phil36]

Judges 18:14 ESV

Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”

 

[phil36]

Judges 18:15 ESV

And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.

 

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Judges 18:16 (NASB)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

 

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Judges 18:17
King James Version(KJV)

17.)And 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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 18:18 (KJV)
And 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?

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 18:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] They said to him, "Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

 

[Chester]

Judges 18:20

And 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.

 

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Judges 18:21 (NASB)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] Then they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the livestock and the valuables in front of them.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 18:22
New International Version (NIV)

When they had gone some distance from Micah’s house, the men who lived near Micah were called together and overtook the Danites.