Judges 18:25

And the children of Dan said to him, Say no more, or men of bitter spirit may make an attack on you, causing loss of your life and the lives of your people.

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And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

In Context

24And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?

26Then the children of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he went back to his house.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

Job 3:5Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Matthew Henry on Judges 18:15-27

Micah's Gods Stolen; Micah's Attempt to Recover His Idols. ( b. c. 1406.) 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do. 15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war,… Read the whole commentary →

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