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Judges 18:8

EshtaolZorah

6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.

7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?

9 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.

10 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.

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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?

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  • Judges 18:2

    And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

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  • Judges 18:11

    And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.

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  • Judges 13:2

    And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

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  • Judges 16:31

    Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

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