Judges 18:7-9
Evangelical Heritage Version
7 So the five men continued their journey until they arrived at Laish. They saw that the people there were living in the same way as the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was no one to disturb them or oppress them.[a] They were far removed from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone else.[b]
8 Then the five spies returned to their fellow tribesmen[c] at Zorah and Eshtaol. Their brothers said to them, “What do you think?”
9 The five answered, “Get up! Let us go up against them, ⎣for we have entered the land and journeyed as far as Laish. We saw how the people lived in security in the same way as the Sidonians, but they were far from the Sidonians, and they had no dealings with Aram. Get up! Let us go up against them,⎦[d] for we have seen the land. We assure you it is very good. Why are you still sitting here? Do not be slow. Get going to the land and take possession of it.
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- Judges 18:7 The meaning of this sentence is uncertain.
- Judges 18:7 Or, following the Greek Old Testament, with Aram
- Judges 18:8 Literally their brothers
- Judges 18:9 The long passage marked by half-brackets is not present in the Hebrew text but is present in the Greek Old Testament. An accidental omission from the Hebrew text may have occurred as the copyist’s eye jumped from one occurrence of Let us go up against them to another.
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