KJV King James Version
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Judges 18:10
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
WEB World English Bible
When you go, you shall come to a secure people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.”
ASV American Standard Version
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and the land is large; for God hath given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
When ye go, ye come in unto a people confident, and the land is large on both hands, for God hath given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything which is in the land.’
Surrounding context — Judges 18
7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.
8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
9 And they said, Arise, that we may 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 to possess the land.
10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.
11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim.
13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כְּבֹאֲכֶ֞םH935 · boto come (in): comeתָּבֹ֣אוּ׀H935 · boto come (in): comeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)עַ֣םH5971 · ampeopleבֹּטֵ֗חַH982 · ba.tachto trustוְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙H776 · e.retsland: country/planetרַחֲבַ֣תH7342 · ra.chavBroadיָדַ֔יִםH3027 · yadhandכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforנְתָנָ֥הּH5414 · na.tanto give: giveאֱלֹהִ֖יםH430 · e.lo.himGodבְּיֶדְכֶ֑םH3027 · yadhandמָקוֹם֙H4725 · ma.qomplaceאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichאֵֽין־H369 · a.yinnothingשָׁ֣םH8033 · shamthereמַחְס֔וֹרH4270 · mach.sorneedכָּל־H3605 · kolallדָּבָ֖רH1697 · da.varwordאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichבָּאָֽרֶץ׃H776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Judges 18:27And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.1 Timothy 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;Judges 18:7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.Deuteronomy 2:29(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.Deuteronomy 4:1Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do [them], that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.Deuteronomy 8:7-9For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;Ezekiel 20:6In the day [that] I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of all lands:Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.Joshua 6:16And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.Deuteronomy 11:11-12But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
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