Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 271

8-3 THE BOOKOF THE PERIOD OF THE ]UDGES. 18-·-gi 3 there. While they were in the house of Mikah they recognised the voice of the young Levite, and were at- When I0 II I2 did you come here? And what do you do here? and for hows much? ’ Mikah

does this and that for me, and hires me, and I am his priest. En-

quire, now, of GOD, and learn the result of the journey that we are going upon. And the priest answered them,

‘Go in peace! The Evmz·L1vmG accompanies the way you are going? So the Eve men went and arrived

at Lashah, and saw that the people inhabited it in security under the government of Zidon, quietly and securely, and there were no soldiers in the country. It was controlled and administered from Zidon, and they had no troubles for themselves. When they returned to their rela-

tivesat Tzarah and Ashthaol, they When Come on and let us assail them, for we have seen the country, and it is very beautiful. Go, you idlers, do not delay to march, and go to seize the country ;-—-for you will come to a quiet people, and a land of extensive forests, which GOD will give to your hands;-···a place where there is no want of anything that is upon earth! Consequently from the clan of the

Danites there marched from Tzarah and Ashthaol six hundred men, all of them skilled warriors, and they ad- vanced and encamped at Krith-]’arim in ]udah,—therefore they called that place l)an's camp_to this day. lt is

13 behind .Krith-jarim. From there 16 they crossed Mount Ephraim, and proceeded to the house of Mikah. There the nre men who had gone to spy the country of Lashah re- Do you know that there is amongst these houses an ephod, and a tera- phim, and an image, and a shrine, so now you know what to dol ’ They consequently turned aside,

and came to the house of the young Levite, near theihouse of Mikah, and wished him peace, while the six hun- dred men of the Danites armedwith warlike weapons stood before the to, spy out the country entered and 18 took the image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the shrine. But What are you When they answered him, ‘ Be quiet! Put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be cu: father and priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the family of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in So the heart of the priest was satis-

fied, and he took the ephod, and the teraphirn, and the image, and went along with the army: who faced about and marched, and placed the children and baggage, and precious things in fmnt of them. When they had proceeded to a

distance from the house of Mikah, the people who were employed in Mikah’s family, shouted and followed the Danites, and called to the Danites, who turned on them and said to What is the matter with you, that you are shouting? You have stolen

the god I made for myself, and the priest, and marched off I-··so what have I left? And yet you asl: me, ‘ What is the matter with you P But the Danites replied to him; Don't let us hear your noise! For

fear some rough fellows should rush out on you,—·and take your life, and Then the Danites went along their way, and Mikah, seeing they were stronger than himself, faced about and returned to his own house. Thus they stole what Mikah had

made, and the priest who had come to 20 2 r 22 26 him, and went to Lashah, to a people peaceable and quiet, and assailed them, and burnt their city with fire, and there was no deliverance, for 28 they were far from Zidon, and had no intercourse with any person. They afterwards settled in the vale of Beth· rekhob, where they built a town, and 29 called it Dan·town, after the name of their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel, but the name of the place was formerly Lashah. The Danites also set up for themselves the- image, and onathan·ben ·Ghersham — ben — Mas- eh, he and his sons, were priests to

the tribe of Dan until the time of removing from the country, and they worshipped the image that mMikah made all the period that the House door, and the five men who had been ’ of Gon was at Shiloh. 2 7 I