Hakim-hakim 18:19

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi jawab mereka kepadanya: "Diamlah, tutup mulut, ikutlah kami dan jadilah bapak dan imam kami. Apakah yang lebih baik bagimu: menjadi imam untuk seisi rumah satu orang atau menjadi imam untuk suatu suku dan kaum di antara orang Israel?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi jawab mereka kepadanya: "Diamlah, tutup mulut, ikutlah kami dan jadilah bapak dan imam kami. Apakah yang lebih baik bagimu: menjadi imam untuk seisi rumah satu orang atau menjadi imam untuk suatu suku dan kaum di antara orang Israel?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sahut mereka itu kepadanya: Diamlah engkau; tekapkanlah mulutmu dengan tanganmu; pergilah serta dengan kami dan jadilah bagi kami akan bapa dan imam; entah baik mana engkau jadi imam bagi isi rumah hanya seorang jua; atau imam bagi genap sesuku bangsa orang Israel?

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

lay thine: This was the token of silence. These men were evidently very ignorant; and absurdly concluded that they should, by taking Micah's gods, secure the presence and favour of the God of Israel, in their expedition and settlement. They perhaps supposed the piety of their motives, and the goodness of their end, would justify the means. But it was a base robbery of Micah, aggravated by the Levite's ingratitude, and their menaces. Job 21:5, Job 29:9, Job 40:4, Job 40:5, Proverbs 30:32, Micah 7:16

a father: Judges 17:10, 2 Kings 6:21, 2 Kings 8:8, 2 Kings 8:9, 2 Kings 13:14, Matthew 23:9

Reciprocal: Matthew 26:15 - What 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love

Cross-References

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 18:4
Let a litle water, I pray you, be fet, and washe your feete, and refreshe your selues vnder the tree.

Genesis 18:5
And I wyll fet a morsell of bread to comfort your heartes withall, and then shall you go your wayes: for euen therefore are ye come to your seruaunt. And they sayde: do euen so as thou hast sayde.

Genesis 18:6
And Abraham went apace into the tent vnto Sara, & sayde: Make redy at once three peckes of fine meale, kneade [it] and make cakes vpon the hearth.

Genesis 18:7
And Abraham runnyng vnto his beastes, fet a calfe tender and good, and gaue it vnto a young man, and he hasted to make it redy at once.

Genesis 18:9
And they sayde vnto hym: where is Sara thy wife? He aunswered, behold, in the tent.

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.

Genesis 18:19
I knowe this also, that he wyll commaunde his chyldren and his householde after him, that they kepe the way of the Lord, and to do iustice and iudgement, that the Lorde may bryng vppon Abraha that he hath spoken vnto him.

Genesis 18:20
And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:

Genesis 18:21
I wyll go downe nowe, and see whether they haue done altogether accordyng to that crye whiche is come vnto me: and yf not, I wyll knowe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said unto him, hold thy peace,.... Be silent, make no disturbance, be quiet and easy:

lay thy hand upon thy mouth; as a token of silence; so the Egyptians used to paint Harpocrates, the god of silence, with his fingers pressing his lips:

and go with us; for they wanted him as well as his gods, not knowing well how to make use of them without him:

and be to us a father and a priest; to direct them, instruct them, perform acts of devotion for them, and ask counsel on their account; it seems as if it was common in those days to call a priest a father, see

Judges 17:10

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? suggesting, that it must be much more honourable for him, and more to his advantage, to officiate as a priest to a body of people, that might be called a tribe, or to a family consisting of various houses, than in the house of a private person; this they left him to consider and judge of.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 18:19. Lay thine hand upon thy mouth — This was the token of silence. The god of silence, Harpocrates, is represented on ancient statues with his finger pressed on his lips.