Judges 1:23 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 1:23

And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

KJV

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ASV

And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el. (Now the name of the city beforetime was Luz.)

WEB

They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

YLT

and the house of Joseph cause men to spy about Beth-El (and the name of the city formerly is Luz),

DBT

And the house of Joseph sent to search out Bethel; now the name of the city before was Luz.

About this book

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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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7 verses on the floor

Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Genesis 35:6
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.
Joshua 7:2
And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth–aven, on the east side of Beth–el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
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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Hormah--destroyed in fulfilment of an early vow of the Israelites (see on Nu 21:2). The confederate tribes, pursuing their incursions in that quarter, came successively to Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron, which they took.

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

And here, [1.] He is not to be blamed for giving them this intelligence if he did it from a conviction that the Lord was with them, and that by his donation the land was theirs of right, any more than Rahab was for entertaining those whom she knew to be enemies of her country, but friends of God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H1008142× in canon H3130213× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JDG 1:23GEN 28:19 GEN 48:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 1:23GEN 28:19 HOS 4:15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 1:23GEN 28:19 HOS 12:4-5
JDG 1:23GEN 28:19 GEN 35:1
JDG 1:23JOS 7:2 JOS 18:12
JDG 1:23GEN 28:19 1KI 12:29
JDG 1:23JDG 18:2 JDG 13:25
JDG 1:23GEN 35:6 GEN 28:19

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