Judges 18:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² So the Danites sent five valiant men from the whole number of their clan, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it, and they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” When they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they stayed there.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² So the Danites sent from the whole number of their tribe five brave men from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and to explore it, and they said to them, Go, explore the land. They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² The Danites sent five men from their whole clan, strong men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy on the land and explore it. They told them, “Go explore the land.” So they went into the Ephraim highland as far as Micah’s house, and they spent the night there.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Therefore, the sons of Dan sent five very strong men, of their stock and family, from Zorah and Eshtaol, so that they might explore the land and diligently inspect it. And they said to them, "Go, and consider the land." And after traveling, they arrived at mount Ephraim, and they entered into the house of Micah. There they rested.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² So the children of Dan sent five most valiant men of their stock and family from Saraa and Esthaol, to spy out the land, and to view it diligently. And they said to them: Go, and view the land. They went on their way, and when they came to mount Ephraim, they went into the house of Michas, and rested there.

Judges 18:2 Cross References

Genesis 42:9

Joseph also remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them. He said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

Proverbs 20:18

Plans are established by taking advice; wage war by following wise guidance.

Numbers 13:17

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up there into the Negeb, and go up into the hill country,

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Joshua 15:33

And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

Joshua 19:41

The territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.

Joshua 2:2

The king of Jericho was told, “Some Israelites have come here tonight to search out the land.”

Judges 13:2

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren, having borne no children.

Judges 13:25

The spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 16:31

Then his kindred and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.

Judges 17:1

There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

Judges 18:11

Six hundred men of the Danite clan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol

Judges 18:13

From there they passed on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

Judges 18:3

While they were at Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite, so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”

Judges 18:8

When they came to their kinsfolk at Zorah and Eshtaol, they said to them, “What do you report?”

Judges 19:1

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Judges 19:18

He answered him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to my home. Nobody has offered to take me in.