New English Translation

Judges 18:10-16 New English Translation (NET)

10. When you invade, you will encounter unsuspecting people. The land is wide! God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!”

11. So six hundred Danites, fully armed, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.

12. They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan. It is west of Kiriath Jearim.)

13. From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah’s house.

14. The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

15. They stopped there, went inside the young Levite’s house (which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.

16. Meanwhile the six hundred Danites, fully armed, stood at the entrance to the gate.