They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
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They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
And they called to the sons of Dan, and they turned their faces and they said to Micah, “What to you, that you have assembled yourself?”
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They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”
When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
And cryed vnto the children of Dan: who turned their faces, and said vnto Michah, What ayleth thee, that thou makest an outcrie?
And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?
and call unto the sons of Dan, and they turn round their faces, and say to Micah, `What -- to thee that thou hast been called together?'
and call to the sons of Dan, and they turn their faces around, and say to Micah, “What [is this] to you that you have been called together?”
They shouted to the Danites, and they turned and said to Micah, “Why have you been called together?”
And they called to the sons of Dan, and they turned their faces and they said to Micah, “What to you, that you have assembled yourself?”
And they shouted to the Danites, who turned round and said to Micah, "What ails you that you come with such a company?"
As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”
And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
shouting at them. The Danites turned around to face them and asked Micah, “What's the matter with you? Why call out these men to come after us?”
Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah: 'What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?'
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לְמִיכָ֔ה Micah H4318 occurs in 31 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַֽיִּקְרְאוּ֙ אֶל בְּנֵי דָ֔ן וַיַּסֵּ֖בּוּ פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לְמִיכָ֔ה מַה לְּךָ֖ כִּ֥י נִזְעָֽקְתָּ
They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐπιστρέφω ὁ πρόσωπον αὐτός υἱός δαν καί εἶπον ὁ μιχαιας τίς εἰμί σύ ὅτι βοάω
And the children of Dan turned their face, and said to Michaias, What is the matter with you that you have cried out?
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וּקְרוֹ לִבְנֵי דָן וְאַסְחֲרוּ אַפֵּיהוֹן וַאֲמַרוּ לְמִיכָה מַה לָךְ אֲרֵי אִתְכְּנִישְׁתָּא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mîykâh (“Micah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 18:23 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.