So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
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So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
So they set up for themselves the idol of Micah that he had made, all of the days of the being of the house of God at Shiloh.
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So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
So they set them up Micah’s graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
So they set them vp the grauen image, which Michah had made, all the while the house of God was in Shiloh.
And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the house of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.
And they appoint for them the graven image of Micah, which he had made, all the days of the house of God being in Shiloh.
And they appoint for themselves the carved image of Micah, which he had made, all the days of the house of God being in Shiloh.
So they worshiped Micah's carved figure that he made as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
So they set up for themselves the idol of Micah that he had made, all of the days of the being of the house of God at Shiloh.
So they set up Micah's graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
They worshiped the carved idol that Micah had made the whole time God's Temple was at Shiloh.
And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
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פֶּ֥סֶל idol H6459 occurs in 30 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 37 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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 13 Hebrew tokens and 19 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.
Topical passages linked to Judges 18:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 37 words vs World English Bible 22. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לָהֶ֔ם אֶת פֶּ֥סֶל מִיכָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה כָּל יְמֵ֛י הֱי֥וֹת בֵּית הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּשִׁלֹֽה
So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί τίθημι αὐτός ὁ γλυπτός ὅς ποιέω μιχαιας πᾶς ὁ ἡμέρα ὅς εἰμί ὁ οἶκος ὁ θεός ἐν σηλωμ
And they set up for themselves the graven image which Michaias made, all the days that the house of God was in Selom; and it was so in those days that there was no king in Israel.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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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וְשַׁוִיאוּ לְהוֹן יַת צְלָם מִיכָה דִי עֲבַד כָּל יוֹמַיָא דַהֲוָה קַיָם בֵּית מַקְדְשָׁא דַייָ בְּשִׁלֹה:
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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 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is peçel (“idol”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 18:31 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.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — 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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.