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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF JDG 18:1 REFRAIN.
There was no king in Israel in those days;—
Each did what was right in his own eyes.
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At that time the tribe of Dan was seeking itself a district for settlement, for it had not obtained until that period a district amongst the tribes of Israel.
RF JDG 18:2 The Danites consequently sent five men from their clan, all of them bold fellows, from Tzarah and Ashtaol, to examine the country and search it, and said to them, "Go, search the country." So they came to Mount Ephraim, to the house of Mikah, and lodged there.
RF JDG 18:3 While they were in the house of Mikah they recognized the voice of the young Levite, and were attracted by it, and said to him, "When did you come here? And what do you do here? and for how much?"
RF JDG 18:4 And he answered them, "Mikah does this and that for me, and hires me, and I am his priest."
RF JDG 18:5 When they replied to him, "Enquire, now, of GOD, and learn the result of the journey that we are going upon."
RF JDG 18:6 And the priest answered them, "Go in peace! The EVER-LIVING accompanies the way you are going!"
RF JDG 18:7 So the five men went and arrived at Lashah, and saw that the people inhabited it in security under the government of Zidon, quietly and securely, and there were no soldiers in the country. It was controlled and administered from Zidon, and they had no troubles for themselves.
RF JDG 18:8 When they returned to their relatives at Tzarah and Ashthaol, they asked, "What about them?"
RF JDG 18:9 When they replied, "Come on and let us assail them, for we have seen the country, and it is very beautiful. Go, you idlers, do not delay to march, and go to seize the country;—
RF JDG 18:10 for you will come to a quiet people, and a land of extensive forests, which GOD will give to your hands,—
RF JDG 18:11 a place where there is no want of anything that is upon earth! "Consequently from the clan of the Danites there marched from Tzarah and Ashthaol six hundred men, all of them skilled warriors,
RF JDG 18:12 and they advanced and encamped at Krith-Jarim in Judah,—therefore they called that place Dan's camp to this day. It is behind Krith-Jarim.
RF JDG 18:13 From there they crossed Mount Ephraim, and proceeded to the house of Mikah.
RF JDG 18:14 There the five men who had gone to spy the country of Lashah remarked to their companions, "Do you know that there is amongst these houses an ephod, and a teraphim, and an image, and a shrine,—so now you know what to do!"
RF JDG 18:15 They consequently turned aside, and came to the house of the young Levite, near the house of Mikah, and wished him peace,
RF JDG 18:16 while the six hundred men of the Danites armed with warlike weapons stood before the door,
RF JDG 18:17 and the five men who had been to spy out the country entered and took the image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the shrine.
RF JDG 18:18 But the priest asked "What are you doing?"
RF JDG 18:19 When they answered him, "Be quiet! Put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be our father and priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the family of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?"
RF JDG 18:20 So the heart of the priest was satisfied, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the image, and went along with the army:
RF JDG 18:21 who faced about and marched, and placed the children and baggage, and precious things in front of them.
RF JDG 18:22 When they had proceeded to a distance from the house of Mikah, the people who were employed in Mikah's family, shouted and followed the Danites,
RF JDG 18:23 and called to the Danites, who turned on them and said to Mikah, "What is the matter with you, that you are shouting?"
RF JDG 18:24 And he answered, "You have stolen the god I made for myself, and the priest, and marched off!—so what have I left? And yet you ask me, 'What is the matter with you?'"
RF JDG 18:25 But the Danites replied to him; "Don't let us hear your noise! For fear some rough fellows should rush out on you,—and take your life, and the lives of your family."
RF JDG 18:26 Then the Danites went along their way, and Mikah, seeing they were stronger than himself, faced about and returned to his own house.
RF JDG 18:27 Thus they stole what Mikah had made, and the priest who had come to him, and went to Lashah, to a people peaceable and quiet, and assailed them, and burnt their city with fire,
RF JDG 18:28 and there was no deliverance, for they were far from Zidon, and had no intercourse with any person. They afterwards settled in the vale of Beth-rekhob, where they built a town,
RF JDG 18:29 and called it Dan-town, after the name of their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel, but the name of the place was formerly Lashah.
RF JDG 18:30 The Danites also set up for themselves the image, and Jonathan-ben-Gershon-ben-Masheh, he and his sons, were priests to the tribe of Dan until the time of removing from the country,
RF JDG 18:31 and they worshipped the image that Mikah made all the period that the House of GOD was at Shiloh.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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