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10 When you invade,[a] you will encounter[b] unsuspecting people. The land is wide![c] God is handing it over to you—a place that lacks nothing on earth!”[d]

11 So 600 Danites, fully armed, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.[e] 12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan.[f] It is west[g] of Kiriath Jearim.)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 18:10 tn Heb “When you enter.”
  2. Judges 18:10 tn Heb “you will come to.”
  3. Judges 18:10 tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”
  4. Judges 18:10 tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
  5. Judges 18:11 tn Heb “They journeyed from there, from the tribe of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, 600 men, equipped with weapons of war.”
  6. Judges 18:12 tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”
  7. Judges 18:12 tn Heb “behind.”