Judges 18:2
18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, 1 capable men 2 from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house. 3
Judges 18:8-10
18:8 When the Danites returned to their tribe 4 in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen 5 asked them, “How did it go?” 6
18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, 7 for 8 we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, 9 but don’t hesitate 10 to invade and conquer 11 the land.
18:10 When you invade, 12 you will encounter 13 unsuspecting people. The land is wide! 14 God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” 15
1 tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”
2 tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”
3 tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”
4 tn Heb “They came to their brothers.”
5 tn Heb “brothers.”
6 tn Heb “What you?”
7 tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”
8 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”
9 tn Heb “But you are inactive.”
10 tn Or “be lazy.”
11 tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”
12 tn Heb “When you enter.”
13 tn Heb “you will come to.”
14 tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”
15 tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”