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

18:8 When the Danites returned to their tribe ⁴  in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen ⁵  asked them, “How did it go?” ⁶ 

Judges 18:11-12

18:11 So six hundred Danites, fully armed, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol. ⁷  18:12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan. ⁸  It is west ⁹  of Kiriath Jearim.)

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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 “They journeyed from there, from the tribe of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men, equipped with weapons of war.”

⁸ tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”

⁹ tn Heb “behind.”