The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.
This verse Autodidact and up
A passage Seminary Student
Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.
Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
And the sons of Dan went on their way, for Micah perceived that they were stronger than him. And he turned and returned to his house.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
So the children of Dan went their wayes: and when Michah saw that they were too strong for him, hee turned, and went backe vnto his house.
And so they went on the journey they had begun. But Michas seeing that they were stronger than he, returned to his house.
and the sons of Dan go on their way, and Micah seeth that they are stronger than he, and turneth, and goeth back unto his house.
and the sons of Dan go on their way, and Micah sees that they are stronger than he, and turns, and goes back to his house.
Then the people of Dan went their way. When Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
And the sons of Dan went on their way, for Micah perceived that they were stronger than him. And he turned and returned to his house.
Then the Danites went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.
The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
And the children of Dan departed: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
The Danites carried on their way. Micah saw that they were too strong for him to fight so he turned around and went back home.
Then the children of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he went back to his house.
And the children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →
Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִיכָ֗ה Micah H4318 occurs in 31 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
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 14 Hebrew tokens and 22 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.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיֵּלְכ֥וּ בְנֵי דָ֖ן לְדַרְכָּ֑ם וַיַּ֣רְא מִיכָ֗ה כִּי חֲזָקִ֥ים הֵ֨מָּה֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וַיִּ֖פֶן וַיָּ֥שָׁב אֶל בֵּיתֽוֹ
The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί πορεύομαι ὁ υἱός δαν εἰς ὁδός αὐτός καί ὁράω μιχαιας ὅτι δυνατός εἰμί ὑπέρ αὐτός καί στρέφω εἰς ὁ οἶκος αὐτός
And the children of Dan went their way; and Michaias saw that they were stronger than himself, and he returned to his house.
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 →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַאֲזַלוּ בְּנֵי דָן לְאוֹרְחֵיהוֹן וַחֲזָא מִיכָה אֲרֵי תַקִיפִין אִינוּן מִינֵיהּ וְאִתְפְּנֵי וְתַב לְבֵיתֵיהּ:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (14 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 18:26 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
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.
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.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)