Judges 18:8 BSB — MannaFest

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10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙	vai.ya.Vo.'u	and they came	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם	'a.chei.Hem	brothers their	H251 →
צָרְעָ֖ה	tza.re.'Ah	Zorah	H6881 →
וְאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל	ve.'esh.ta.'Ol	and Eshtaol	H847 →
וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ	vai.yo.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
לָהֶ֛ם	la.Hem	to <the> them
אֲחֵיהֶ֖ם	'a.chei.Hem	brothers their	H251 →
מָ֥ה	mah	what?	H4100 →
אַתֶּֽם׃	'a.Tem	you	H859 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Judges 13:2
Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
leads to
- Joshua 19:41
  The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 25:21
  Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
- Joshua 15:33
  These were in the foothills:
- Luke 1:7
  But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.
- Genesis 16:1
  Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
Through
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…
leads to
- Judges 13:25
  And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joshua 2:1
  Then 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.
Through
Judges 16:31
Then 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.
leads to
- Judges 15:20
  And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Judges 18:2So 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.Judges 18:11So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.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.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.

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