Judges 18:2

New Century Version

So, from their family groups, they chose five soldiers from the cities of Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out and explore the land. They were told, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the mountains of Ephraim, to Micah’s house, where they spent the night.

Cross References

Genesis 42:9

And Joseph remembered his dreams about his brothers bowing to him. He said to them, “You are spies! You came to learn where the nation is weak!”

Proverbs 20:18

Get advice if you want your plans to work. If you go to war, get the advice of others.

Numbers 13:17

Moses sent them to explore Canaan and said, “Go through southern Canaan and then into the mountains.

Luke 14:31

“If a king is going to fight another king, first he will sit down and plan. He will decide if he and his ten thousand soldiers can defeat the other king who has twenty thousand soldiers.

Joshua 15:33

The tribe of Judah got these towns in the western hills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

Joshua 19:41

Their land included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,

Joshua 2:1

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent out two spies from Acacia and said to them, “Go and look at the land, particularly at the city of Jericho.” So the men went to Jericho and stayed at the house of a prostitute named Rahab.

Joshua 2:2

Someone told the king of Jericho, “Some men from Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”

Judges 13:2

There was a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan, who lived in the city of Zorah. He had a wife, but she could not have children.

Judges 13:25

The Spirit of the Lord began to work in Samson while he was in the city of Mahaneh Dan, between the cities of Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 16:31

Samson’s brothers and his whole family went down to get his body. They brought him back and buried him in the tomb of Manoah, his father, between the cities of Zorah and Eshtaol. Samson was a judge for the people of Israel for twenty years.

Judges 17:1

There was a man named Micah who lived in the mountains of Ephraim.

Judges 18:11

So six hundred Danites left Zorah and Eshtaol ready for war.

Judges 18:13

From there they traveled on to the mountains of Ephraim. Then they came to Micah’s house.

Judges 18:3

When they came near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. So they stopped there and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing here? Why are you here?”

Judges 18:8

When the five men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their relatives asked them, “What did you find?”

Judges 19:1

At that time Israel did not have a king. There was a Levite who lived in the faraway mountains of Ephraim. He had taken a slave woman from the city of Bethlehem in the land of Judah to live with him,

Judges 19:18

The Levite answered, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to my home in the mountains of Ephraim. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah, but now I am going to the Holy Tent of the Lord. No one has invited me to stay in his house.