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Judges 18:2-4
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Judges 18:2-4
New English Translation
2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives,[a] capable men[b] from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house.[c] 3 As they approached[d] Micah’s house, they recognized the accent[e] of the young Levite. So they stopped[f] there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”[g] 4 He told them what Micah had done for him, saying,[h] “He hired me, and I became his priest.”
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- Judges 18:2 tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”
- Judges 18:2 tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”
- Judges 18:2 tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”
- Judges 18:3 tn Or “When they were near.”
- Judges 18:3 tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).
- Judges 18:3 tn Heb “turned aside.”
- Judges 18:3 tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”
- Judges 18:4 tn Heb “He said to them, ‘Such and such Micah has done for me.’” Though the statement is introduced and presented, at least in part, as a direct quotation (note especially “for me”), the phrase “such and such” appears to be the narrator’s condensed version of what the Levite really said.
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