Judges 18:8
What does Judges 18:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Judges 18:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they come in unto their brethren, at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren say to them, `What--ye?'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890— And they came to their brethren at Zoreah and Eshtaol. And their brethren said to them, What [say] ye?
Context
v.7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
v.8This passage
v.9And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 16:31
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 13:2
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
- Judges 18:2
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there.
- Judges 18:11
And there set forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.