Hakim-hakim 18:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab itu bani Dan menyuruh dari kaumnya lima orang dari seluruh jumlah mereka, semuanya orang-orang yang gagah perkasa, yang berasal dari Zora dan Esytaol, untuk mengintai negeri itu dan menyelidikinya, serta berkata kepada mereka: "Pergilah menyelidiki negeri itu." Ketika orang-orang itu sampai ke pegunungan Efraim di rumah Mikha, bermalamlah mereka di sana.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab itu bani Dan menyuruh dari kaumnya lima orang dari seluruh jumlah mereka, semuanya orang-orang yang gagah perkasa, yang berasal dari Zora dan Esytaol, untuk mengintai negeri itu dan menyelidikinya, serta berkata kepada mereka: "Pergilah menyelidiki negeri itu." Ketika orang-orang itu sampai ke pegunungan Efraim di rumah Mikha, bermalamlah mereka di sana.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka oleh bani Dan disuruhkan lima orang dari pada sukunya, semuanya orang bangsawan yang perwira dan perkasa dari Zora dan Esytaol akan mengintai dan menyelidik negeri itu, katanya kepadanya: Pergilah kamu dan selidiklah akan negeri itu. Hata, maka berjalanlah mereka itu, lalu sampai ke pegunungan Efrayim dan ke rumah Mikha; maka bermalamlah mereka itu di sana.

Contextual Overview

¹ In those dayes there was no kyng in Israel, and in those dayes the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritaunce to dwell in: For vnto that tyme all their inheritaunce had not fallen vnto them among the tribe of Israel. ² And the children of Dan sent of their kynred fyue actiue men in feates of warre out of their coastes, euen out of Zaraah & Esthaol, to viewe the lande and searche it out, and sayde vnto them: Go, and searche out the lande. Which whan they came to mount Ephraim, euen to the house of Micah, they lodged there. ³ And when they were in the house of Micah, they knewe the voyce of the young man the Leuite: And when they turned in thyther, they sayde vnto him: Who brought thee thyther? What makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here? ⁴ And he aunswered them: Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hyred me, and I am become his priest. ⁵ And they sayd vnto hym agayne: Aske counsell now of God, that we may knowe whether the way which we go shalbe prousperous, or no. ⁶ And the priest sayde vnto them: Go in peace, for the Lorde guydeth your way which ye go.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

men: Heb. sons

Zorah: Judges 18:8, Judges 18:11, Judges 13:2, Judges 13:25, Judges 16:31, Genesis 42:9, Joshua 19:41

to spy: Numbers 13:17, Joshua 2:1, Proverbs 20:18, Luke 14:31

mount: Judges 17:1, Judges 19:1, Judges 19:18, Joshua 17:15-18

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:16 - General Judges 1:23 - sent Judges 18:13 - mount Ephraim Judges 18:17 - five men 1 Chronicles 19:3 - to search

Cross-References

Genesis 18:3
And sayde: Lorde, yf I haue nowe founde fauour in thy sight, passe not away I praye thee from thy seruaunt.

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 18:11
Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.

Genesis 18:16
And the men rysyng vp from thence, loked toward Sodome: and Abraham went with them to bryng them on the way.

Genesis 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde.

Genesis 23:7
Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.

Genesis 32:24
And Iacob was left hym selfe alone: and there wrasteled a man with hym, vnto the breakyng of the day.

Genesis 43:26
When Ioseph came home, they brought the present into the house to hym, whiche was in their handes, and bowed them selues to the grounde before him.

Genesis 43:28
They aunswered: Thy seruaunt our father is in good health, & is yet alyue. And they bowing them selues, made theyr obeysaunce.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men,.... According to Abarbinel one out of a family, as Moses sent one out of a tribe to spy the land; and so there must be five families concerned in this affair:

from their coasts, men of valour from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; these men were sent from the borders of the tribe, the extreme parts of it, as the word may signify, where perhaps they were the most pressed and overcrowded: Zorah and Eshtaol are particularly mentioned, and were the first cities in their lot, and were the coast of their inheritance, :- some take the phrase rendered "from their coasts" to signify persons of extreme meanness, men of the lowest class among them; but the above mentioned writers interpret it to a quite contrary sense, by "Katzinim", princes, such as Moses sent to spy the land; and this better agrees with the next clause, "men of valour": and the word used signifies not only magnanimity and fortitude of mind, but wealth and riches; and these were sent not to spy the land of Canaan, but such places as fell to this tribe, but were possessed by the Canaanites; and their errand was to observe in what condition they were, and whether fit for their purpose, and easy to obtain, and how they might get the possession of any of them:

and they said unto them, search the land; and see if some convenient place cannot be found out to enlarge their inheritance, and give them more room and liberty for their families, now pent up, and a pasturage for their flocks and herds:

who when they came to Mount Ephraim; which lay upon the borders of them:

to the house of Micah, they lodged there; that is, when they were come near to the house of Micah, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it, they took up their lodging in the neighbourhood of it, perhaps at a public house or inn; for the sense is not, that they lodged in Micah's house, for after this we read of their turning into it, as in the next verse. According to Bunting r, this place was twenty four miles from Zorah and Eshtaol, from whence these men came.

r Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 112.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This identity of locality with the scene of Samson’s birth and death indicates that both narratives are drawn from the same source, probably the annals of the tribe of Dan.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 18:2. Five men - men of valour — The Hebrew word חיל chayil has been applied to personal prowess, to mental energy, and to earthly possessions. They sent those in whose courage, judgment, and prudence, they could safely confide.