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Judges Chapter 18

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Gideon’s sons, who had defied his command, join the Midianites and attack Israel, causing great fear among the people. The Israelites, led by Gideon, respond with a sacrifice and a battle, and God delivers them, but the victory is followed by a period of fear and a reminder of the cost of disobedience.

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(1) In 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.
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Judges 17:6Judges 19:1Judges 21:25Joshua 19:40Joshua 19:41Joshua 19:42Joshua 19:43Joshua 19:44Joshua 19:45Joshua 19:46Joshua 19:47Joshua 19:48

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Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Numbers 33:54Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:7Numbers 36:9

(2) 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.
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Judges 18:8Judges 18:11Judges 13:2Judges 13:25Judges 16:31Genesis 42:9Joshua 19:41Numbers 13:17Joshua 2:1Proverbs 20:18Luke 14:31Judges 17:1

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Numbers 26:58Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Joshua 19:47Numbers 26:35Numbers 3:27

(3) When 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?
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Judges 12:6Genesis 27:22Matthew 26:73Isaiah 22:16

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Judges 18:15Judges 17:12Deuteronomy 22:6Isaiah 22:16

(4) And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
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Judges 17:10Proverbs 28:21Isaiah 56:11Ezekiel 13:19Hosea 4:8Hosea 4:9Malachi 1:10John 10:12John 10:13Acts 8:18Acts 8:19Acts 8:20

(5) And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
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I Kings 22:5II Kings 16:15Isaiah 30:1Ezekiel 21:21Hosea 4:12Acts 8:10Judges 18:14Judges 17:5Judges 17:13

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Deuteronomy 4:32Romans 14:8I Corinthians 13:8II Samuel 17:14

(6) And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.
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I Kings 22:6I Kings 22:12I Kings 22:15Jeremiah 23:21Jeremiah 23:22Jeremiah 23:32Deuteronomy 11:12Psalms 33:18I Thessalonians 3:11

(7) 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.
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Joshua 19:47Judges 18:27Judges 18:28Revelation 18:7I Samuel 3:13I Kings 1:6Romans 13:3I Peter 2:14

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Judges 18:28Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20II Chronicles 20:8Nehemiah 13:16Genesis 12:4

(8) And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
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Judges 18:2Judges 18:11Judges 13:2Judges 16:31

(9) And 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.
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Numbers 13:30Numbers 14:7Numbers 14:8Numbers 14:9Joshua 2:23Joshua 2:24I Kings 22:23Joshua 18:3I Samuel 4:9II Samuel 10:12John 6:27Hebrews 6:11

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Judges 11:24Obadiah 1:19

(10) When 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.
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Judges 18:7Judges 18:27Deuteronomy 2:29Deuteronomy 4:1Joshua 6:16Exodus 3:8Deuteronomy 8:7Deuteronomy 8:8Deuteronomy 8:9Deuteronomy 11:11Deuteronomy 11:12Ezekiel 20:6

(11) And 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.
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Numbers 26:58Judges 18:16Judges 18:17Numbers 3:27Judges 21:24I Chronicles 12:35

(12) And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
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Joshua 15:60I Samuel 7:1I Chronicles 13:5I Chronicles 13:6II Chronicles 1:4Judges 13:25

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(13) And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
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Judges 18:2Judges 18:3Judges 17:1Judges 19:1Joshua 24:30Joshua 24:33

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I Samuel 9:4Joshua 15:10Judges 19:18I Kings 12:25II Kings 2:25Exodus 19:20

(14) 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.
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I Samuel 14:28Judges 18:3Judges 18:4Judges 17:5Proverbs 19:27Isaiah 8:19Isaiah 8:20

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Judges 18:17Leviticus 26:1Judges 18:18Habakkuk 2:18Judges 17:3Judges 17:4

(15) And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
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Genesis 37:14Genesis 43:27I Samuel 17:22II Kings 4:26Matthew 10:12Matthew 10:13Luke 10:4Luke 10:5Luke 10:6John 14:27

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Judges 18:3Judges 17:12Deuteronomy 22:6

(16) And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
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Judges 18:17Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Judges 18:11Joshua 19:47Ezekiel 48:32

(17) And 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.
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Judges 18:2Judges 18:14Judges 6:31Judges 17:4Judges 17:5Exodus 32:20I Samuel 4:11I Samuel 6:2I Samuel 6:3I Samuel 6:4I Samuel 6:5I Samuel 6:6

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Judges 18:14Leviticus 26:1Judges 18:18Habakkuk 2:18Judges 17:3Judges 17:4

(18) And 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?
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Judges 18:14Judges 18:17Leviticus 26:1Revelation 13:15Judges 17:3Judges 17:4

(19) And 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?
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Job 21:5Job 29:9Job 40:4Job 40:5Proverbs 30:32Micah 7:16Judges 17:10II Kings 6:21II Kings 8:8II Kings 8:9II Kings 13:14Matthew 23:9

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Numbers 26:58Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:61I Chronicles 6:62Numbers 3:27Numbers 34:14

(20) And 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.
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Judges 17:10Proverbs 30:15Isaiah 56:11Ezekiel 13:19Hosea 4:3Acts 20:33Philippians 3:19II Peter 2:3II Peter 2:15II Peter 2:16

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Judges 18:14Judges 18:17Leviticus 26:1Judges 18:18Habakkuk 2:18Judges 17:3

(21) So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
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Deuteronomy 3:19Genesis 47:17Numbers 31:9Numbers 32:16Numbers 32:26Deuteronomy 20:14

(22) And 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.
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Joshua 19:47Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(23) And 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?
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Genesis 21:17I Samuel 11:5II Samuel 14:5II Kings 6:28Psalms 114:5Isaiah 22:1

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I Samuel 13:18Joshua 19:47Judges 18:26II Chronicles 29:6

(24) And 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?
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Judges 17:13Psalms 115:8Isaiah 44:18Isaiah 44:19Isaiah 44:20Jeremiah 50:38Jeremiah 51:17Ezekiel 23:5Habakkuk 2:18Habakkuk 2:19Acts 19:26Revelation 17:2

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Judges 10:6

(25) And 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.
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I Samuel 30:6II Samuel 17:8Job 3:5Job 27:2

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Joshua 19:47Galatians 2:2II Samuel 19:5I Corinthians 9:24

(26) And 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.
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Joshua 19:47II Kings 1:5II Samuel 10:11I Chronicles 19:12Judges 18:23Psalms 78:57

(27) 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.
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Judges 18:7Judges 18:10Deuteronomy 33:22Joshua 19:47Joshua 11:11

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Joshua 8:24I Samuel 22:19Judges 18:7

(28) And 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.
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II Samuel 14:6Psalms 7:2Psalms 50:22Daniel 3:15Daniel 3:16Daniel 3:17Judges 18:1Judges 18:7Joshua 11:8Isaiah 23:4Isaiah 23:12Numbers 13:21

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Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16Judges 18:7I Kings 12:25II Chronicles 20:8Deuteronomy 8:12

(29) 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.
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Judges 20:1Genesis 14:14Joshua 19:47II Samuel 17:11I Kings 12:29I Kings 12:30I Kings 15:20Genesis 30:6Genesis 32:28

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(30) And 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.
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Exodus 20:4Leviticus 26:1Deuteronomy 17:2Deuteronomy 17:3Deuteronomy 17:4Deuteronomy 17:5Deuteronomy 17:6Deuteronomy 17:7Deuteronomy 27:15Deuteronomy 31:16Deuteronomy 31:29Joshua 19:40

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Joshua 19:47Joshua 21:5I Chronicles 6:62Joshua 21:6Leviticus 26:1Habakkuk 2:18

(31) And 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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Judges 19:18Judges 21:21Joshua 18:1I Samuel 1:3I Samuel 4:4Jeremiah 7:12

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