Judges 18:14

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.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And they passed thence unto the hill-country of Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

15And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

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Cross References

Judges 17:5And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

1 Samuel 14:28Then answered one of the people, and said: 'Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that eateth food this day; and the people are faint.'

Proverbs 19:27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Matthew Henry on Judges 18:8-14

7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man. 8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? 9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and,… Read the whole commentary →

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