Laish in the Bible

Meaning: a lion

Exact Match

Then 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.

Verse ConceptsSearchingSecurityMannersMagistratesQuietnessFar From HereMen Of PeaceRelationships And Dating

And they said, Up! and let us go against Laish; for we have seen the land, and it is very good: why are you doing nothing? Do not be slow to go in and take the land for your heritage.

Then 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.

Verse ConceptsFive People

And 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.

Verse ConceptsConflagrationsBurning CitiesMen Of Peace

And 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.

Thematic Bible



(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who [was] from Gallim.)

So Ish-Bosheth sent and took her from [her] husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish.


Daughter of Gallim, cry out [with] your voice; Laishah, listen! {Anathoth is poor}.


The descendants of Dan sent from the whole number of their clan five {capable men} from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go, explore the land." And they went to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and they spent the night there. While they [were] with the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite, and they turned aside there and said to him, "Who brought you here? What [are] you doing in this place, and {what is your business here}?" And he said to them, "Micah did such and such for me and hired me, and I became his priest." read more.
And they said to him, "Please inquire of God that we may know whether our journey that we [are] going on will be successful." And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. Yahweh [is] in front of you on the journey you want to go on." And the five men went and came to Laish, and they observed the people who [were] living according to the customs of [the] Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, and lacking nothing in the land, and possessing restraint. And they [were] far from [the] Sidonians and had no word with anyone. They came to their relatives [at] Zorah and Eshtaol, and their relatives said to them, "What [do] you [report]?" And they said to them, "Come, let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and [it is] very good. Will you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, to enter, to possess the land. When you go you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land {is spread out on all sides}; God has given a place into your hands where there is no lack of anything that [is] on the earth."


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Hastings

Easton

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Morish

Smith

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