KJV King James Version
And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim.
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Judges 18:12
And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. That is why the place west of Kiriath-jearim is called Mahaneh-dan to this day.
WEB World English Bible
They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah: therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
ASV American Standard Version
And they went up, and encamped in Kiriath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan, unto this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath-jearim.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they go up and encamp in Kirjath-Jearim, in Judah, therefore they have called that place, ‘Camp of Dan,’ till this day; lo, behind Kirjath-Jearim.
Surrounding context — Judges 18
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.
14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
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וַֽיַּעֲל֗וּH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseוַֽיַּחֲנ֛וּH2583 · cha.nahto campבְּקִרְיַ֥תH7157 · qir.yat ye.a.rimKiriath-jearimיְעָרִ֖יםH7157 · qir.yat ye.a.rimKiriath-jearimבִּֽיהוּדָ֑הH3063 · ye.hu.dahJudahעַל־H5921 · aluponכֵּ֡ןH3651 · kenrightקָרְאוּ֩H7121 · qa.rato call: call toלַמָּק֨וֹםH4725 · ma.qomplaceהַה֜וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itמַחֲנֵה־H4265 · ma.cha.neh-danMahaneh-danדָ֗ןH4265 · ma.cha.neh-danMahaneh-danעַ֚דH5704 · adtillהַיּ֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַזֶּ֔הH2088 · zehthisהִנֵּ֕הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdאַחֲרֵ֖יH310 · a.charafterקִרְיַ֥תH7157 · qir.yat ye.a.rimKiriath-jearimיְעָרִֽים׃H7157 · qir.yat ye.a.rimKiriath-jearim
Cross-references
Judges 13:25And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.Joshua 15:60Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:1 Chronicles 13:5-6So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.2 Chronicles 1:4But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to [the place which] David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.1 Samuel 7:1And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
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