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Judges 18:31

So they set them vp the grauen image, which Michah had made, all the while the house of God was in Shiloh.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Shiloh;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Shiloh;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dan, the Tribe of;   Time;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dan;   Idol, Idolatry;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Micah;   Shiloh;   Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dan (1);   Judges, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Shiloh (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Archaeology and Biblical Study;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dan;   Israel;   Jonathan;   Micah, Micaiah;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Shiloh;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dan;   Shiloh ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dan;   Idolatry;   Shiloh;   Tabernacle;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Shi'loh;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   House of God;   Judges, Book of:;   Manasseh (1);   Micah (1);   Shiloh (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dan;   Sacrifice;   Tabernacle;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image that he had made, and it was there as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
Hebrew Names Version
So they set them up Mikhah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
King James Version
And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Lexham English Bible
So they set up for themselves the carved divine image that Micah had made, all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh.
English Standard Version
So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
New Century Version
The people of Dan set up the idols Micah had made as long as the Holy Tent of God was in Shiloh.
New English Translation
They worshiped Micah's carved image the whole time God's authorized shrine was in Shiloh.
Amplified Bible
So they set up for themselves Micah's [silver-plated wooden] image which he had made, and kept it throughout the time that the house (tabernacle) of God was at Shiloh.
New American Standard Bible
So they set up for themselves Micah's carved image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Legacy Standard Bible
En hulle het vir hulle die gesnede beeld van Miga opgerig wat hy gemaak het, al die dae dat die huis van God in Silo was.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus they erected for themselves Mikhah's idol which he had made, and it remained there as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
Darby Translation
And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image, which he had made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Easy-to-Read Version
The people of Dan set up for themselves the idol that Micah had made. That idol was there the whole time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
George Lamsa Translation
And they set up for themselves Micahs graven image, which he had made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Good News Translation
Micah's idol remained there as long as the Tent where God was worshiped remained at Shiloh.
Literal Translation
And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image, which he had made, all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thus they set amonge the the ymage of Micha, which he had made, as loge as ye house of God was at Silo.
American Standard Version
So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Bible in Basic English
And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they set them vp the carued image which Micah made, all the while that the house of God was in Silo.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
King James Version (1611)
And they set them vp Micahs grauen image, which hee made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they set up for themselves the graven image which Michaias made, all the days that the house of God was in Selom; and it was so in those days that there was no king in Israel.
English Revised Version
So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Berean Standard Bible
So they set up for themselves Micah's graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the idol of Mychas dwellide at hem, in al the tyme `in which the hows of God was in Silo. In tho daies was no kyng in Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And they appoint for them the graven image of Micah, which he had made, all the days of the house of God being in Shiloh.
Update Bible Version
So they set themselves up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
World English Bible
So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
New King James Version
So they set up for themselves Micah's carved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
New Living Translation
So Micah's carved image was worshiped by the tribe of Dan as long as the Tabernacle of God remained at Shiloh.
New Life Bible
They set up the false god that Micah had made, while the house of God was at Shiloh.
New Revised Standard
So they maintained as their own Micah's idol that he had made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they set up for themselves the graven image of Micah, which he had made, - and let it remain all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the house of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.
Revised Standard Version
So they set up Micah's graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they set up for themselves Micah's graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.

Contextual Overview

27 And they tooke the things which Michah had made, and the Priest which he had, and came vnto Laish, vnto a quiet people and without mistrust, and smote them with the edge of the sworde, and burnt the citie with fire: 28 And there was none to helpe, because Laish was farre from Zidon, and they had no businesse with other men: also it was in the valley that lyeth by Beth-rehob. After, they built the citie, and dwelt therein, 29 And called the name of the citie Dan, after the name of Dan their father which was borne vnto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the beginning. 30 Then the children of Dan set them vp the grauen image: and Ionathan the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Manasseh and his sonnes were the Priestes in the tribe of the Danites vntil the day of the captiuitie of the lande. 31 So they set them vp the grauen image, which Michah had made, all the while the house of God was in Shiloh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all the time: Judges 19:18, Judges 21:21, Joshua 18:1, 1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 4:4, Jeremiah 7:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:19 - images Judges 20:18 - house of Acts 7:45 - Which

Cross-References

Genesis 18:20
Then the Lorde saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,
Genesis 18:22
And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lord.
Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham answered and said, Behold nowe, I haue begun to speake vnto my Lord, and I am but dust and ashes.
Matthew 7:7
Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and ye shall finde: knocke, and it shall be opened vnto you.
Matthew 7:11
If ye then, which are euill, can giue to your children good giftes, howe much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good thinges to them that aske him?
Luke 11:8
I say vnto you, Though he would not arise and giue him, because he is his friende, yet doubtlesse because of his importunitie, hee woulde rise, and giue him as many as he needed.
Luke 18:1
And he spake also a parable vnto them, to this ende, that they ought alwayes to pray, and not to waxe faint,
Ephesians 6:18
And pray alwayes wt all maner prayer and supplication in the Spirit: and watch thereunto with all perseuerance & supplication for al Saints,
Hebrews 4:16
Let vs therefore goe boldly vnto ye throne of grace, that we may receiue mercy, and finde grace to helpe in time of neede.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made,.... Which is repeated for the sake of the time of its continuance next expressed:

all the time the house of God was in Shiloh; which, according to some Jewish writers g, was three hundred and sixty years; that is, so long as the tabernacle was there, which was afterwards removed to Nob.

g Maimon. in Misn. Zebachim, c. 14. sect. 6. & Bartenora in ib. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the Hebrew text the name here rendered Manasseh is written MN)- SH. Without the “N” (nun) suspended over the line, the word may be read: Moses, whose son was Gershom Exodus 2:22, whose son or descendant Jonathan clearly was. The Masoretes, probably grieved that a descendant of Moses should have been implicated in idolatrous worship, adopted this expedient for disguising the fact without absolutely falsifying the text. The Vulgate has “Moses”, the Septuagint “Manasses”.

These verses seem to tell us that Jonathan’s descendants were priests to the tribe of Dan until the captivity 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6; and that the graven image was in their custody until David’s time, by whose order, perhaps, it was destroyed, though the idolatrous worship continued, or was revived, at Dan.


 
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