Laish in the Bible

Meaning: a lion

Exact Match

And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

Thematic Bible



And Saul gave Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

And the man of shame will send and take her from the man Phaltiel, son of Laish.


Cry aloud with thy voice, thou daughter of Gallim: hearken to Irish, Anathoth answered.


And the sons of Dan will send from their families five men from their extremities, men sons of power, from Zorah and Eshtaol, to search the land and to examine it; and they will say to them, Go and examine the land: and they will come to mount Ephraim, even to the house of Micah, and they will lodge there. And they with the house of Micah, and they knew the voice of the youth, the Levite: and they will turn aside there and say to him, Who brought thee hither? and what didst thou in here? and what to thee here? And he will say to them, according to this, and according to this, Micah did to me, and he will hire me, and I to him for priest read more.
And they will say to him, Ask now of God, and we shall know whether our way shall prosper which we go upon it. And the priest will say to them, Go for peace: before Jehovah, your way which ye shall go in it. And the five men will go and come to Laish, and they will see the people which in the midst of her, dwelling in confidence according to the judgment of the Sidonians, quiet and confiding; and none shaming the word in the land, a possessor heaping up, and they far off from the Sidonians, and the word was not to them with man. And they will come to their brethren of Zomh and Eshtaol; and their brethren will say to them, What ye? And they will say, Arise, and we will go up upon them: for we saw the land, and behold, exceedingly good: and ye being still, ye shall not neglect to go, to come to inherit the land. In your going, ye shall come to a people confiding, and to a land of many hands: for God gave it into your hand, a place where no want there of any word which is in the earth.


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Hastings

Easton

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Morish

Smith

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