Judges 18:22 When they had gone some distance from Micah's house, the men who lived near Micah were called together and overtook the Danites.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When they had gone some distance from Micah's house, the men who lived near Micah were called together and overtook the Danites.

English Standard Version
When they had gone a distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house were called out, and they overtook the people of Dan.

New American Standard Bible
When they had gone some distance from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house assembled and overtook the sons of Dan.

King James Bible
And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After they were some distance from Micah's house, the men who were in the houses near it mobilized and caught up with the Danites.

International Standard Version
When they had been gone a short distance from Micah's home, some of Micah's neighbors assembled a search party and overtook the descendants of Dan.

American Standard Version
When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And were now at a distance from the house of Michas, the men that dwelt in the houses of Michas gathering together followed them,

Darby Bible Translation
When they were a good way from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the Danites.

Young's Literal Translation
They have been far off from the house of Micah -- and the men who are in the houses which are near the house of Micah have been called together, and overtake the sons of Dan,

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

22-26. the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together—The robbers of the chapel being soon detected, a hot pursuit was forthwith commenced by Micah, at the head of a considerable body of followers. The readiness with which they joined in the attempt to recover the stolen articles affords a presumption that the advantages of the chapel had been open to all in the neighborhood; and the importance which Micah, like Laban, attached to his teraphim, is seen by the urgency with which he pursued the thieves, and the risk of his life in attempting to procure their restoration. Finding his party, however, not a match for the Danites, he thought it prudent to desist, well knowing the rule which was then prevalent in the land, that

"They should take who had the power,

And they should keep who could."