Judges 18:8 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 18:8

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

And they come in unto their brethren, at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren say to them, `What--ye?'

DBT

— And they came to their brethren at Zoreah and Eshtaol. And their brethren said to them, What [say] ye?

About this book

Old Testament

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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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.
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.
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.
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.
1 Chronicles 19:3
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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The place was very secluded--the soil rich in the abundance and variety of its produce, and the inhabitants, following the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, lived in their fertile and sequestered valley, according to the Zidonian style of ease and security, happy among themselves, and maintaining little or no communication with the rest of the world.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

They represent the place as desirable: "If you will trust our judgments, we have seen the land, and we are agreed in our verdict upon the view, that, behold, it is very good (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H8477× in canon H688110× in canon

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JDG 18:8JDG 13:2 JOS 19:41
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 18:8JDG 18:2 JDG 13:25
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 18:8JDG 13:2 GEN 25:21
JDG 18:8JDG 13:2 JOS 15:33
JDG 18:8JDG 13:2 LUK 1:7
JDG 18:8JDG 13:2 GEN 16:1
JDG 18:8JDG 18:2 JOS 2:1
JDG 18:8JDG 16:31 JDG 15:20

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