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Selected Verse: Judges 18:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jud 18:14 |
Strong Concordance |
Then answered [06030] the five [02568] men [0582] that went [01980] to spy out [07270] the country [0776] of Laish [03919], and said [0559] unto their brethren [0251], Do ye know [03045] that there is [03426] in these houses [01004] an ephod [0646], and teraphim [08655], and a graven image [06459], and a molten image [04541]? now therefore consider [03045] what ye have to do [06213]. |
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King James |
Then 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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| In these houses - This agrees with what we saw at Jdg 18:2-3 that the "house of God" and Jonathan's house were detached from Micah's. There were other houses besides Jdg 18:22. The whole settlement was probably called Beth-Micah, contained in one court, and entered by one gate Jdg 18:16. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Then the five men who had explored the land, viz., Laish (Laish is in apposition to הארץ, the land), said to their brethren (tribe-mates), "Know ye that in these houses (the village or place where Micah dwelt) there are an ephod and teraphim, and image and molten work (see at Jdg 17:4-5)? and now know what ye will do." The meaning of these last words is very easily explained: do not lose this opportunity of obtaining a worship of our own for our new settlement. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Answered - That is, spake, the word answering being often used in scripture of the first speaker. These houses - That is, in one of these houses. What to do - Whether it be not expedient to take them for your farther use. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Consider what ye have to do - They probably had formed the design to carry off the priest and his sacred utensils. |
16 And the six [08337] hundred [03967] men [0376] appointed [02296] with their weapons [03627] of war [04421], which were of the children [01121] of Dan [01835], stood [05324] by the entering [06607] of the gate [08179].
22 And when they were a good way [07368] from the house [01004] of Micah [04318], the men [0582] that were in the houses [01004] near to Micah's [04318] house [01004] were gathered together [02199], and overtook [01692] the children [01121] of Dan [01835].
2 And the children [01121] of Dan [01835] sent [07971] of their family [04940] five [02568] men [0582] from their coasts [07098], men [01121] of valour [02428], from Zorah [06881], and from Eshtaol [0847], to spy [07270] out the land [0776], and to search [02713] it; and they said [0559] unto them, Go [03212], search [02713] the land [0776]: who when they came [0935] to mount [02022] Ephraim [0669], to the house [01004] of Micah [04318], they lodged [03885] there.
3 When they were by the house [01004] of Micah [04318], they knew [05234] the voice [06963] of the young man [05288] the Levite [03881]: and they turned in [05493] thither, and said [0559] unto him, Who brought [0935] thee hither [01988]? and what makest [06213] thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
4 Yet he restored [07725] the money [03701] unto his mother [0517]; and his mother [0517] took [03947] two hundred [03967] shekels of silver [03701], and gave [05414] them to the founder [06884], who made [06213] thereof a graven image [06459] and a molten image [04541]: and they were in the house [01004] of Micah [04321].
5 And the man [0376] Micah [04318] had an house [01004] of gods [0430], and made [06213] an ephod [0646], and teraphim [08655], and consecrated [04390] [03027] one [0259] of his sons [01121], who became his priest [03548].