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Juízes 18 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
31 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1In those days there was no king in Israel. But also in those days, the tribe of Dan was looking for a place to settle down. They hadn't yet occupied their plot among the tribes of Israel.
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1In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
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2The Danites sent out five robust warriors from Zorah and Eshtaol to look over the land and see what was out there suitable for their families. They said, "Go and explore the land."They went into the hill country of Ephraim and got as far as the house of Micah. They camped there for the night.
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2The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
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3As they neared Micah's house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. They went over and said to him, "How on earth did you get here? What's going on? What are you doing here?"
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3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they turned aside there, and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
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4He said, "One thing led to another: Micah hired me and I'm now his priest."
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4He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.”
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5They said, "Oh, good—inquire of God for us. Find out whether our mission will be a success."
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5They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
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6The priest said, "Go assured. God's looking out for you all the way."
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6The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”
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7The five men left and headed north to Laish. They saw that the people there were living in safety under the umbrella of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. They had everything going for them. But the people lived a long way from the Sidonians to the west and had no treaty with the Arameans to the east.
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7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.
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8When they got back to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked, "So, how did you find things?"
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8They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
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9They said, "Let's go for it! Let's attack. We've seen the land and it is excellent. Are you going to just sit on your hands? Don't dawdle! Invade and conquer!
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9They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
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10When you get there, you'll find they're sitting ducks, totally unsuspecting. Wide open land—God is handing it over to you, everything you could ever ask for."
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10When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
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11So 600 Danite men set out from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed to the teeth.
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11The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol, with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
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12Along the way they made camp at Kiriath Jearim in Judah. That is why the place is still today called Dan's Camp—it's just west of Kiriath Jearim.
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12They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
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13From there they proceeded into the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah's house.
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13They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
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14The five men who earlier had explored the country of Laish told their companions, "Did you know there's an ephod, teraphim-idols, and a cast god-sculpture in these buildings? What do you think? Do you want to do something about it?"
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14Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
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15So they turned off the road there, went to the house of the young Levite at Micah's place and asked how things had been with him.
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15They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
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16The 600 Danites, all well-armed, stood guard at the entrance to the gate
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16The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
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17while the five scouts who had gone to explore the land went in and took the carved idol, the ephod, the teraphim-idols, and the god-sculpture. The priest was standing at the gate entrance with the 600 armed men.
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17The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
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18When the five went into Micah's house and took the carved idol, the ephod, the teraphim-idols, and the sculpted god, the priest said to them, "What do you think you're doing?"
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18When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
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19They said to him, "Hush! Don't make a sound. Come with us. Be our father and priest. Which is more important, that you be a priest to one man or that you become priest to a whole tribe and clan in Israel?"
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19They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
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20The priest jumped at the chance. He took the ephod, the teraphim-idols, and the idol and fell in with the troops.
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20The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
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21They turned away and set out, putting the children, the cattle, and the gear in the lead.
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21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.
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22They were well on their way from Micah's house before Micah and his neighbors got organized. But they soon overtook the Danites.
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22When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.
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23They shouted at them. The Danites turned around and said, "So what's all the noise about?"
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23As 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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24Micah said, "You took my god, the one I made, and you took my priest. And you marched off! What do I have left? How can you now say, 'What's the matter?' "
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24He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”
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25But the Danites answered, "Don't yell at us; you just might provoke some fierce, hot-tempered men to attack you, and you'll end up an army of dead men."
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25The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”
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26The Danites went on their way. Micah saw that he didn't stand a chance against their arms. He turned back and went home.
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26The 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.
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27So they took the things that Micah had made, along with his priest, and they arrived at Laish, that city of quiet and unsuspecting people. They massacred the people and burned down the city.
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27They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
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28There was no one around to help. They were a long way from Sidon and had no treaty with the Arameans. Laish was in the valley of Beth Rehob.
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28There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived in it.
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29When they rebuilt the city they renamed it Dan after their ancestor who was a son of Israel, but its original name was Laish.
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29They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
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30The Danites set up the god-figure for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his descendants were priests to the tribe of Dan down to the time of the land's captivity.
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30The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
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31All during the time that there was a sanctuary of God in Shiloh, they kept for their private use the god-figure that Micah had made.
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31So 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.