Then the five men departed and came to (A)Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, (B)quiet and unsuspecting, lacking[a] nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how (C)they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 18:7 Compare 18:10; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

So the five men(A) left and came to Laish,(B) where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure.(C) And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous.[a] Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians(D) and had no relationship with anyone else.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 18:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  2. Judges 18:7 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts with the Arameans

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.

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10 As soon as you go, you will come to an (A)unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, (B)a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

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10 When you get there, you will find an unsuspecting people and a spacious land that God has put into your hands, a land that lacks nothing(A) whatever.(B)

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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.

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