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Judges 18:18

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When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them, What do ye?

KJV

And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

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This verse in Judges 18

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Their journey led them through the territory of Judah, and their first halting place was "behind," that is, on the west of Kirjath-jearim, on a spot called afterwards "the camp of Dan." Prosecuting the northern route, they skirted the base of the Ephraimite hills.

This site's exposition

took the graven image

on Judges 18:18-20

The priest asks what they are doing as his shrine goes out the door, and the answer is an offer. Micah had hired him at 17:10 in the same words, and Dan repeats them, “be a father and a priest to us”, counting a tribe instead of coin. The priest was glad and went in the middle of the company, which Clarke reads as hiding from his old master.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And these went into Micah's house,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It is mentioned as the reproach of idols that they themselves had gone into captivity, Isa. xlvi. O the sottishness of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods should protect them that could not keep themselves from being stolen?

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

These went unto Micah’s house - The five men went in, while the six hundred armed men stood at the gate.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֵ֗לֶּהand these [men]

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • בָּ֚אוּthey went

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • מִיכָ֔הMicah

    mikhahH4318 →33 times

  • וַיִּקְחוּ֙and they took

    vaiyikchuH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פֶּ֣סֶל[the] carved image of

    peselH6459 →31 times

  • הָאֵפ֔וֹדthe ephod

    haefodH646 →49 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַתְּרָפִ֖יםthe teraphim

    haterafimH8655 →15 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַמַּסֵּכָ֑הthe molten image

    hamasekhahH4541 →28 times

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֲלֵיהֶם֙to them

    ʾaleihemH413 →5510 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • מָ֥הwhat?

    mahH4100 →752 times

  • אַתֶּ֖ם[are] you

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • עֹשִֽׂים׃doing

    ʾosimH6213 →2628 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Judges

Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 18 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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