Judges 18:10

⁸ When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”

⁹ They answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!

When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”

¹¹ So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.

¹² They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. That is why the place west of Kiriath-jearim is called Mahaneh-dan to this day.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
KJV: When 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.
WEB: When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.”
ASV: When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and the land is large; for God hath given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
DARBY: When ye go in, ye shall come to a people secure, and the land is spacious in every direction; for God has given it into your hands; [it is] a place where there is no want of anything that is on the earth.
BLB: When you⁺ enter, you⁺ will come to a people unsuspecting, and the land [is] large on both hands, for God has given it into your⁺ hands, a place that is not lacking of anything that [is] on the earth.”

ÅB: Når dere kommer dit, kommer dere til et sorgløst folk, og landet strekker seg til alle sider vidt ut; Gud har gitt det i deres hånd - et land hvor det ikke er mangel på noen verdens ting.
OTB: Når dere kommer dit, vil dere finne et folk som er intetanende og et romslig land som Gud har gitt i deres hender, et sted hvor det ikke mangler noe på jorden."
B1930: Når I kommer dit, kommer I til et sorgløst folk, og landet strekker sig til alle sider vidt ut; Gud har gitt det i eders hånd - et land hvor det ikke er mangel på nogen verdens ting.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Judges 18:27
After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
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1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
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Judges 18:7
So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.
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Deuteronomy 8:7–9
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
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Deuteronomy 11:11–12
But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
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Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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Joshua 6:16
After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
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Deuteronomy 4:1
Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
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