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Judges 18:8

EshtaolZorah

6 And the priest told them, “Go in peace. The LORD is watching over your journey.”

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.

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!

10 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.”

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BSB
When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
KJV
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
WEB
They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
ASV
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
DARBY
And they came to their brethren at Zoreah and Eshtaol. And their brethren said to them, What [say] ye?
BLB
And they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, “What do you⁺ [say]?”
ÅB
Da de så kom tilbake til sine brødre i Sora og Estaol, sa deres brødre til dem: Hvordan er det gått dere?
OTB
Da de vendte tilbake til sine brødre i Sora og Esjtaol, spurte deres meddanitter dem: "Hva er deres rapport?"
B1930
Da de så kom tilbake til sine brødre i Sora og Estaol, sa deres brødre til dem: Hvorledes er det gått eder?

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Judges 18:2

    So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.

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  • Judges 18:11

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

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  • Judges 13:2

    Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

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  • Judges 16:31

    Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

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