Judges 18:14

Then commenced the five men that had gone to spy out the country of Layish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there are in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven and molten image? and now consider what ye have to do.

Leeser Tanakh

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 mountain of Ephraim, and came as far as the house of Micah.

15And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, unto the house of Micah, and asked him after 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 commenced one of the people, and said, Thy father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that will eat food this day; though the people were faint.

Proverbs 19:27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth [thee] to err from the sayings 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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