╩─╟ 18:1 ╔N THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ╔SRAEL: AND IN THOSE DAYS THE TRIBE OF THE ─ANITES SOUGHT THEM AN INHERITANCE TO DWELL IN; FOR UNTO THAT DAY ALL THEIR INHERITANCE HAD NOT FALLEN UNTO THEM AMONG THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL.
╩─╟ 18:2 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ─AN SENT OF THEIR FAMILY FIVE MEN FROM THEIR COASTS, MEN OF VALOUR, FROM ┌ORAH, AND FROM ┼SHTAOL, TO SPY OUT THE LAND, AND TO SEARCH IT; AND THEY SAID UNTO THEM, ╟O, SEARCH THE LAND: WHO WHEN THEY CAME TO MOUNT ┼PHRAIM, TO THE HOUSE OF ═ICAH, THEY LODGED THERE.
╩─╟ 18:3 ╫HEN THEY WERE BY THE HOUSE OF ═ICAH, THEY KNEW THE VOICE OF THE YOUNG MAN THE ╠EVITE: AND THEY TURNED IN THITHER, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HO BROUGHT THEE HITHER? AND WHAT MAKEST THOU IN THIS PLACE? AND WHAT HAST THOU HERE?
╩─╟ 18:4 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO THEM, ╘HUS AND THUS DEALETH ═ICAH WITH ME, AND HATH HIRED ME, AND ╔ AM HIS PRIEST.
╩─╟ 18:5 ┴ND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, ┴SK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF ╟OD, THAT WE MAY KNOW WHETHER OUR WAY WHICH WE GO SHALL BE PROSPEROUS.
╩─╟ 18:6 ┴ND THE PRIEST SAID UNTO THEM, ╟O IN PEACE: BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─ IS YOUR WAY WHEREIN YE GO.
╩─╟ 18:7 ╘HEN THE FIVE MEN DEPARTED, AND CAME TO ╠AISH, AND SAW THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THEREIN, HOW THEY DWELT CARELESS, AFTER THE MANNER OF THE ┌IDONIANS, 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 ┌IDONIANS, AND HAD NO BUSINESS WITH ANY MAN.
╩─╟ 18:8 ┴ND THEY CAME UNTO THEIR BRETHREN TO ┌ORAH AND ┼SHTAOL: AND THEIR BRETHREN SAID UNTO THEM, ╫HAT SAY YE?
╩─╟ 18:9 ┴ND THEY SAID, ┴RISE, THAT WE MAY GO UP AGAINST THEM: FOR WE HAVE SEEN THE LAND, AND, BEHOLD, IT IS VERY GOOD: AND ARE YE STILL? BE NOT SLOTHFUL TO GO, AND TO ENTER TO POSSESS THE LAND.
╩─╟ 18:10 ╫HEN YE GO, YE SHALL COME UNTO A PEOPLE SECURE, AND TO A LARGE LAND: FOR ╟OD HATH GIVEN IT INTO YOUR HANDS; A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO WANT OF ANY THING THAT IS IN THE EARTH.
╩─╟ 18:11 ┴ND THERE WENT FROM THENCE OF THE FAMILY OF THE ─ANITES, OUT OF ┌ORAH AND OUT OF ┼SHTAOL, SIX HUNDRED MEN APPOINTED WITH WEAPONS OF WAR.
╩─╟ 18:12 ┴ND THEY WENT UP, AND PITCHED IN ╦IRJATHJEARIM, IN ╩UDAH: WHEREFORE THEY CALLED THAT PLACE ═AHANEHDAN UNTO THIS DAY: BEHOLD, IT IS BEHIND ╦IRJATHJEARIM.
╩─╟ 18:13 ┴ND THEY PASSED THENCE UNTO MOUNT ┼PHRAIM, AND CAME UNTO THE HOUSE OF ═ICAH.
╩─╟ 18:14 ╘HEN ANSWERED THE FIVE MEN THAT WENT TO SPY OUT THE COUNTRY OF ╠AISH, AND SAID UNTO THEIR BRETHREN, ─O YE KNOW THAT THERE IS IN THESE HOUSES AN EPHOD, AND TERAPHIM, AND A GRAVEN IMAGE, AND A MOLTEN IMAGE? NOW THEREFORE CONSIDER WHAT YE HAVE TO DO.
╩─╟ 18:15 ┴ND THEY TURNED THITHERWARD, AND CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE YOUNG MAN THE ╠EVITE, EVEN UNTO THE HOUSE OF ═ICAH, AND SALUTED HIM.
╩─╟ 18:16 ┴ND THE SIX HUNDRED MEN APPOINTED WITH THEIR WEAPONS OF WAR, WHICH WERE OF THE CHILDREN OF ─AN, STOOD BY THE ENTERING OF THE GATE.
╩─╟ 18:17 ┴ND THE FIVE MEN THAT WENT TO SPY OUT THE LAND WENT UP, AND CAME IN THITHER, AND TOOK THE GRAVEN IMAGE, AND THE EPHOD, AND THE TERAPHIM, AND THE MOLTEN IMAGE: AND THE PRIEST STOOD IN THE ENTERING OF THE GATE WITH THE SIX HUNDRED MEN THAT WERE APPOINTED WITH WEAPONS OF WAR.
╩─╟ 18:18 ┴ND THESE WENT INTO ═ICAH'S HOUSE, AND FETCHED THE CARVED IMAGE, THE EPHOD, AND THE TERAPHIM, AND THE MOLTEN IMAGE. ╘HEN SAID THE PRIEST UNTO THEM, ╫HAT DO YE?
╩─╟ 18:19 ┴ND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, ╚OLD THY PEACE, LAY THINE HAND UPON THY MOUTH, AND GO WITH US, AND BE TO US A FATHER AND A PRIEST: IS IT BETTER FOR THEE TO BE A PRIEST UNTO THE HOUSE OF ONE MAN, OR THAT THOU BE A PRIEST UNTO A TRIBE AND A FAMILY IN ╔SRAEL?
╩─╟ 18:20 ┴ND THE PRIEST'S HEART WAS GLAD, AND HE TOOK THE EPHOD, AND THE TERAPHIM, AND THE GRAVEN IMAGE, AND WENT IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE.
╩─╟ 18:21 ╙O THEY TURNED AND DEPARTED, AND PUT THE LITTLE ONES AND THE CATTLE AND THE CARRIAGE BEFORE THEM.
╩─╟ 18:22 ┴ND WHEN THEY WERE A GOOD WAY FROM THE HOUSE OF ═ICAH, THE MEN THAT WERE IN THE HOUSES NEAR TO ═ICAH'S HOUSE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND OVERTOOK THE CHILDREN OF ─AN.
╩─╟ 18:23 ┴ND THEY CRIED UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ─AN. ┴ND THEY TURNED THEIR FACES, AND SAID UNTO ═ICAH, ╫HAT AILETH THEE, THAT THOU COMEST WITH SUCH A COMPANY?
╩─╟ 18:24 ┴ND HE SAID, ┘E HAVE TAKEN AWAY MY GODS WHICH ╔ MADE, AND THE PRIEST, AND YE ARE GONE AWAY: AND WHAT HAVE ╔ MORE? AND WHAT IS THIS THAT YE SAY UNTO ME, ╫HAT AILETH THEE?
╩─╟ 18:25 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ─AN SAID UNTO HIM, ╠ET NOT THY VOICE BE HEARD AMONG US, LEST ANGRY FELLOWS RUN UPON THEE, AND THOU LOSE THY LIFE, WITH THE LIVES OF THY HOUSEHOLD.
╩─╟ 18:26 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ─AN WENT THEIR WAY: AND WHEN ═ICAH SAW THAT THEY WERE TOO STRONG FOR HIM, HE TURNED AND WENT BACK UNTO HIS HOUSE.
╩─╟ 18:27 ┴ND THEY TOOK THE THINGS WHICH ═ICAH HAD MADE, AND THE PRIEST WHICH HE HAD, AND CAME UNTO ╠AISH, UNTO A PEOPLE THAT WERE AT QUIET AND SECURE: AND THEY SMOTE THEM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND BURNT THE CITY WITH FIRE.
╩─╟ 18:28 ┴ND THERE WAS NO DELIVERER, BECAUSE IT WAS FAR FROM ┌IDON, AND THEY HAD NO BUSINESS WITH ANY MAN; AND IT WAS IN THE VALLEY THAT LIETH BY ┬ETHREHOB. ┴ND THEY BUILT A CITY, AND DWELT THEREIN.
╩─╟ 18:29 ┴ND THEY CALLED THE NAME OF THE CITY ─AN, AFTER THE NAME OF ─AN THEIR FATHER, WHO WAS BORN UNTO ╔SRAEL: HOWBEIT THE NAME OF THE CITY WAS ╠AISH AT THE FIRST.
╩─╟ 18:30 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ─AN SET UP THE GRAVEN IMAGE: AND ╩ONATHAN, THE SON OF ╟ERSHOM, THE SON OF ═ANASSEH, HE AND HIS SONS WERE PRIESTS TO THE TRIBE OF ─AN UNTIL THE DAY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF THE LAND.
╩─╟ 18:31 ┴ND THEY SET THEM UP ═ICAH'S GRAVEN IMAGE, WHICH HE MADE, ALL THE TIME THAT THE HOUSE OF ╟OD WAS IN ╙HILOH.
