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Hakim-hakim 18:14

Lalu berbicaralah kelima orang yang telah pergi mengintai daerah Lais itu, katanya kepada saudara-saudara sesukunya: "Tahukah kamu, bahwa dalam rumah-rumah ini ada efod, terafim, patung pahatan dan patung tuangan? Oleh sebab itu, insafilah apa yang akan kamu perbuat!"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dishonesty;   Ephod;   Jonathan;   Teraphim;   Theft and Thieves;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ephod;   False;   Idolatry;   Images;   Teraphim;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephod, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Teraphim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Micah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Laish;   Thummim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Laish (2);   Pentateuch;   Rachel;   Teraphim;   Urim and Thummim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Archaeology and Biblical Study;   Inquire of God;   Teraphim;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dan;   Ephod;   God;   Israel;   Jonathan;   Laish;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Micah, Micaiah;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Jonathan ;   Laish ;   Teraphim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dan;   Ephod;   Teraphim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - L'ish;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephod (1);   Images;   Jonathan (1);   Lion;   Micah (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dan;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berbicaralah kelima orang yang telah pergi mengintai daerah Lais itu, katanya kepada saudara-saudara sesukunya: "Tahukah kamu, bahwa dalam rumah-rumah ini ada efod, terafim, patung pahatan dan patung tuangan? Oleh sebab itu, insafilah apa yang akan kamu perbuat!"
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kata kelima orang yang telah pergi mengintai negeri Lais itu kepada saudara-saudaranya: Tahukah kamu akan hal di dalam rumah ini adalah suatu efod dan terafim dan seorang patung tuangan yang terukir? Maka sekarangpun hendaklah kamu tahu barang yang patut kamu perbuat.

Contextual Overview

14 Then aunswered the fiue men that went to spye out the countrey of Lais, and saide vnto their brethren: Wot ye not that there is in these houses an Ephod, Theraphim, and a grauen and a moulten image? Nowe therfore consider what ye haue to do. 15 And they turned thytherwarde, and came to the house of the young man the Leuite, euen vnto the house of Micah, and saluted hym peaceablie. 16 And the sixe hundred men girded with weapons of warre, which were of the children of Dan, stoode by the entryng of the gate. 17 And the fiue men that went to spye out the lande, went in thyther, & toke the graue image, & the Ephod, Theraphim, and the moulten image: (And the priest stoode in the entryng of the gate with the sixe hundred men that were appointed with weapons of warre.) 18 Whyle the other went into Micahs house, and fet the carued image, the Ephod, Theraphim, and the moulten image: Then saide the priest vnto them, what do ye? 19 They aunswered hym: Holde thy peace, lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs, to be our father and priest: Is it better for thee to be a priest vnto the house of one man, then to be a priest vnto a tribe or kynred in Israel? 20 And the priestes hearte was glad, and toke the Ephod, and Theraphim, and the grauen image, and went in the middest of the people. 21 And they turned and departed, and put the children, the catell, and their other substaunce before them. 22 And whe they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses neare to Micahs house, gathered together, & folowed after the children of Dan: 23 And called vnto them, and they turned their faces, & said vnto Micah: What ayleth thee, that thou makest an outcrye?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then: 1 Samuel 14:28

in these: Judges 18:3, Judges 18:4, Judges 17:5

now therefore: Proverbs 19:27, Isaiah 8:19, Isaiah 8:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:19 - images Joshua 2:1 - to spy secretly Judges 8:27 - an ephod Judges 18:5 - of God Judges 18:17 - five men 1 Samuel 19:13 - an image Job 3:2 - spake Ezekiel 21:21 - images Zechariah 10:2 - the idols

Cross-References

Genesis 17:21
But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.
Genesis 18:1
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day.
Genesis 18:2
And he lift vp his eyes and loked, and loe, three men stoode by hym: And when he sawe them, he ranne to meete them from the tent doore, and bowed hym selfe towarde the grounde,
Genesis 18:10
And he sayde: I wyll certaynely returne vnto thee according to the time of lyfe: and lo, Sara thy wyfe shall haue a sonne. That heard Sara in the tent doore, which was behynde hym.
Numbers 11:23
And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Shall the Lordes hande be waxed short? Thou shalt see now whether my word shal come to passe vnto thee or not.
Deuteronomy 7:21
Thou shalt not feare the: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mightie God and a terrible.
Deuteronomy 30:3
And the Lorde thy God wyll turne thy captiuitie and haue compassion vpon thee, and wyll turne and fetche thee agayne from all the nations among which the Lord thy God had scattered thee.
1 Samuel 14:6
And Ionathan sayd to the young man that bare his harnesse: Come, and let vs go ouer vnto the garison of these vncircumcised, it may be that the Lorde will worke with vs: for it is no hardnesse with the Lord to saue either in manie or in fewe.
2 Kings 4:16
And he saide: At this tyme appoynted, according to the tyme of lyfe, thou shalt imbrace a sonne. And she said: Oh nay my lorde thou man of God, do not lye vnto thyne handmayde.
Job 36:5
Beholde, the great God casteth away no man, for he him selfe is mightie in power and wysdome.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish,.... That were sent by their brethren, Judges 18:5 and, as it seems from hence, were sent particularly to Laish; they had some notion of that place as proper for them, and therefore sent those men to reconnoitre it; and now as they had passed this way before, when they came within sight of Micah's house, it put them in mind of what they had seen there; wherefore one in the name of the rest, and with their approbation, acquainted the company with it:

and said unto their brethren, do ye know that there is in those houses; in one of them, pointing to the houses of a village or town in sight:

an ephod and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? of which see Judges 17:4 and no doubt but they acquainted them, only that they had seen them, and so were certain but had consulted them, and that with success:

now therefore consider, say they,

what ye have to do; whether it may not be proper to consult them again, or rather to take them with us, to consult as occasion may require, and as tokens and pledges of God being with us, and so may the rather hope that everything will succeed to our wishes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In these houses - This agrees with what we saw at Judges 18:2-3 that the “house of God” and Jonathan’s house were detached from Micah’s. There were other houses besides Judges 18:22. The whole settlement was probably called Beth-Micah, contained in one court, and entered by one gate Judges 18:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 18:14. Consider what ye have to do. — They probably had formed the design to carry off the priest and his sacred utensils.


 
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