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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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ASV

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there.

KJV

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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּשְׁלְח֣וּvai.yish.le.Chuand they sentH7971 →
בְנֵי־ve.nei-[the] descendants ofH1121 →
דָ֣ן׀danDanH1835 →
מִֽמִּשְׁפַּחְתָּ֡םmi.mish.pach.Tamfrom tribe theirH4940 →
חֲמִשָּׁ֣הcha.mi.ShahfiveH2568 →
אֲנָשִׁ֣ים'a.na.ShimmenH582 →
מִקְצוֹתָם֩mik.tzo.Tamfrom ends theirH7098 →
אֲנָשִׁ֨ים'a.na.ShimmenH582 →
בְּנֵי־be.nei-sons ofH1121 →
חַ֜יִלCha.yilstrengthH2428 →
מִצָּרְעָ֣הmi.tza.re.'Ahfrom ZorahH6881 →
וּמֵֽאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֗לu.me.'esh.ta.'Oland from EshtaolH847 →
לְרַגֵּ֤לle.ra.Gelto spy outH7270 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
וּלְחָקְרָ֔הּu.le.cha.ke.Rahand to explore itH2713 →
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּvai.yo.me.Ruand they saidH559 →
אֲלֵהֶ֔ם'a.le.Hemto themH413 →
לְכ֖וּle.KhugoH1980 →
חִקְר֣וּchik.RuexploreH2713 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
וַיָּבֹ֤אוּvai.ya.Vo.'uand they wentH935 →
הַר־har-[the] hill country ofH2022 →
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙'ef.Ra.yimEphraimH669 →
עַד־'ad-toH5704 →
בֵּ֣יתbeit[the] house ofH1004 →
מִיכָ֔הmi.KhahMicahH4318 →
וַיָּלִ֖ינוּvai.ya.Li.nuand they spent [the] nightH3885 →
שָֽׁם׃ShamthereH8033 →

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Judges 13:25And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.Judges 18:11So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.Judges 18:8When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”Numbers 13:17When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.Judges 18:17And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.Judges 17:1Now a man named Micah from the hill country of EphraimGenesis 42:9Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”Judges 19:18The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,Judges 16:31Then 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.Luke 14:31Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?Judges 13:2Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.Joshua 19:41The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,Proverbs 20:18Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.Judges 19:1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.Joshua 17:15–18Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”1 Chronicles 19:3the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”Judges 1:23They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

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The Death of Samson — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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