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Judges 18 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:1 - In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of Dan sought for itself an inheritance to inhabit, because no inheritance had fallen to it until that day in the midst of the tribes of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - And the sons of Dan sent from their families five men of valour, from Saraa and from Esthaol, to spy out the land and to [fn]search it; and they said to them, Go and search out the land. And they came as far as the mount of Ephraim to the house of Michaias and they lodged there,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - in the house of Michaias, and they recognised the voice of the young man the Levite, and turned in thither; and said to him, Who brought thee in hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:4 - And he said to them, Thus and thus did Michaias to me, and he hired me, and I became his priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:5 - And they said to him, Enquire now of God, and we shall know whether our way will prosper, on which we are going.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:6 - And the priest said to them, Go in peace; your way in which ye go, is before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:7 - And the five men went on, and came to Laisa; and they saw the people in the midst of it dwelling securely, at ease as is the manner of the Sidonians, and there is no one [fn]perverting or shaming a matter in the land, no heir extorting treasures; and they are far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with any one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:8 - And the five men came to their brethren to Saraa and Esthaol, and said to their brethren, Why sit ye here idle?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9 - And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good, yet ye are still: delay not to go, and to enter in to possess the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:10 - And whensoever ye shall go, ye shall come in upon a people secure, and the land is extensive, for God has given it into your hand; a place where there is no want of [fn]anything that the earth affords.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:11 - And there departed thence of the families of Dan, from Saraa and from Esthaol, six hundred men, girded with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:12 - And they went up, and encamped in Cariathiarim in Juda; therefore it was called in that place the camp of Dan, until this day: behold, it is behind Cariathiarim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:13 - And they went on thence to the mount of Ephraim, and came to the house of Michaias.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laisa answered, and said to their brethren, Ye know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what ye shall do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - And they turned aside there, and went into the house of the young man, the Levite, even into the house of Michaias, and asked him [fn]how he was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:16 - And the six hundred men of the sons of Dan who were girded with their weapons of war [fn]stood by the door of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - And the five men who went to spy out the land went up, and entered into the house of Michaias, and the priest stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - And they took the graven image, and the ephod, and the theraphin, and the molten image; and the priest said to them, What are ye doing?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:19 - And they said to him, Be silent, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be the priest of the house of one man, or to be the priest of a tribe and house for a family of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:20 - And the heart of the priest was glad, and he took the ephod, and the theraphin, and the graven image, and the molten image, and went in the midst of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:21 - So they turned and departed, and put their children and their property and their baggage before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:22 - They went some distance from the house of Michaias, and, behold, Michaias and the men in the houses near Michaias' house, cried out, and overtook the children of Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:23 - And the children of Dan turned their face, and said to Michaias, What is the matter with thee that thou hast cried out?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:24 - And Michaias said, Because ye have taken my graven image which I made, and my priest, and are gone; and what have I remaining? and what is this that ye say to me, Why criest thou?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:25 - And the children of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard with us, lest angry men run upon thee, and [fn]take away thy life, and the lives of thy house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:26 - And the children of Dan went their way; and Michaias saw that they were stronger than himself, and he returned to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:27 - And the children of Dan took what Michaias had made, and the priest that he had, and they came to Laisa, to a people quiet and secure; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:28 - And there was no deliverer, because the city is far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with men, and it is in the valley of the house of Raab; and they built the city, and dwelt in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:29 - And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; and the name of the city was [fn]Ulamais before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:30 - And the children of Dan set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan son of Gerson son of Manasse, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan till the time of the carrying away of the [fn]nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:31 - And they set up for themselves the graven image which Michaias made, all the days that the house of God was in Selom; and it was so in those days that there was no king in Israel.
BES Footnotes
Or, survey or examine it.
Here probably διατρέπων and ἐκπιέζων both come under the Heb. מבליס and ἐκπιέζων and θησανροὺς both under עצר.
Gr. of the things in the land or earth.
Gr. as to or concerning peace.
Lit. standing.
Lit. add. q. d. to the deeds already done.
Heb. Ulamaish, or Laish of old.
Gr. land.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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