Judges 18:2

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Summary

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.

Zorah

Joshua 19:41

To spy

Mount

Judges 17:1

Judges 19:1

Joshua 17:15

General references

Genesis 49:16

Bible References

Zorah

And when they came to their brethren at Zorah and Esh'ta-ol, their brethren said to them, "What do you report?"

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Mano'ah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Esh'ta-ol in the tomb of Mano'ah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamt of them; and he said to them, Ye are spies: to see the exposed places of the land ye are come.

And the territory of their inheritance was Zoreah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,

To spy

And Moses sent them to search out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the south and go up into the hill-country,

And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two spies secretly, saying, Go, see the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and they lay down there.

Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.

Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?

Mount

There was a man of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Micah.

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

And Joshua said unto them, If thou art a great people, then get thee up to the wood, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.

General references

Dan will judge his people, As another of the tribes of Israel.