KJV King James Version
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
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Judges 18:8
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
WEB World English Bible
They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, “What do you say?”
ASV American Standard Version
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they come in unto their brethren, at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren say to them, ‘What—ye?’
Surrounding context — Judges 18
5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go.
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.
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וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙H935 · boto come (in): comeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אֲחֵיהֶ֔םH251 · achbrother: male-siblingצָרְעָ֖הH6881 · tsor.ahZorahוְאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑לH847 · esh.ta.olEshtaolוַיֹּאמְר֥וּH559 · a.marto sayלָהֶ֛םH9038 · hemthemאֲחֵיהֶ֖םH251 · achbrother: male-siblingמָ֥הH4100 · mahwhat?אַתֶּֽם׃H859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)
Cross-references
Judges 18:11And 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.Judges 18:2And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.Judges 16:31Then 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.Judges 13:2And 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.
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