Judges 18:13 From there they went on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah's house.

◄ Judges 18:13 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
From there they went on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah's house.

English Standard Version
And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

New American Standard Bible
They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

King James Bible
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
From there they traveled to the hill country of Ephraim and arrived at Micah's house.

International Standard Version
They proceeded from there to the mountainous region of Ephraim and arrived at Micah's house.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
From thence they passed into mount Ephraim. And when they were come to the house of Michas,

Darby Bible Translation
And they passed on from there to the hill country of E'phraim, and came to the house of Micah.

Young's Literal Translation
And they pass over thence to the hill-country of Ephraim, and come in unto the house of Micah.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11-21. there went from thence of the family of the Danites … six hundred men—This was the collective number of the men who were equipped with arms to carry out this expeditionary enterprise, without including the families and furniture of the emigrants (Jud 18:21). Their journey led them through the territory of Judah, and their first halting place was "behind," that is, on the west of Kirjath-jearim, on a spot called afterwards "the camp of Dan." Prosecuting the northern route, they skirted the base of the Ephraimite hills. On approaching the neighborhood of Micah's residence, the spies having given information that a private sanctuary was kept there, the priest of which had rendered them important service when on their exploring expedition, it was unanimously agreed that both he and the furniture of the establishment would be a valuable acquisition to their proposed settlement. A plan of spoliation was immediately formed. While the armed men stood sentinels at the gates, the five spies broke into the chapel, pillaged the images and vestments, and succeeded in bribing the priest also by a tempting offer to transfer his services to their new colony. Taking charge of the ephod, the teraphim, and the graven image, he "went in the midst of the people"—a central position assigned him in the march, perhaps for his personal security; but more probably in imitation of the place appointed for the priests and the ark, in the middle of the congregated tribes, on the marches through the wilderness. This theft presents a curious medley of low morality and strong religious feeling. The Danites exemplified a deep-seated principle of our nature—that men have religious affections, which must have an object on which these may be exercised, while they are often not very discriminating in the choice of the objects. In proportion to the slender influence religion wields over the heart, the greater is the importance attached to external rites; and in the exact observance of these, the conscience is fully satisfied, and seldom or never molested by reflections on the breach of minor morals.