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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And 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. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And 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. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. |
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