SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:14
¶ Entonces aquellos cinco hombres que habían ido a reconocer la tierra de Lais, dijeron a sus hermanos: ¿No sabéis como en estas casas hay efod y terafines, e imagen de talla y de fundición? Mirad, pues, lo que habéis de hacer.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 18:14
Verse 14. Consider what ye have to do.] They probably had formed the design to carry off the priest and his sacred utensils.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. Then they answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish , etc.] That were sent by their brethren, ( Judges 18:5) and, as it seems from hence, were sent particularly to Laish; they had some notion of that place as proper for them, and therefore sent those men to reconnoitre it; and now as they had passed this way before, when they came within sight of Micah’s house, it put them in mind of what they had seen there; wherefore one in the name of the rest, and with their approbation, acquainted the company with it: and said unto their brethren, do ye know that there is in those houses ; in one of them, pointing to the houses of a village or town in sight: an ephod and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image ? of which (see Judges 17:4,5) and no doubt but they acquainted them, only that they had seen them, and so were certain but had consulted them, and that with success: now therefore consider , say they, what ye have to do ; whether it may not be proper to consult them again, or rather to take them with us, to consult as occasion may require, and as tokens and pledges of God being with us, and so may the rather hope that everything will succeed to our wishes.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The Danites seek to enlarge their inheritance, and rob Micah. --The Danites determined to take Micah's gods with them. Oh the foll of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods should protec them, that could not keep themselves from being stolen! To take the for their own use, was a double crime; it showed they neither feare God, nor regarded man, but were lost both to godliness and honesty What a folly was it for Micah to call those his gods, which he ha made, when He only is to be worshipped by us as God, that made us! Tha is put in God's place, which we are concerned about, as if our all wer bound up in it. If people will walk in the name of their false gods much more should we love and serve the true God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויענו 6030 חמשׁת 2568 האנשׁים 582 ההלכים 1980 לרגל 7270 את 853 הארץ 776 לישׁ 3919 ויאמרו 559 אל 413 אחיהם 251 הידעתם 3045 כי 3588 ישׁ 3426 בבתים 1004 האלה 428 אפוד 646 ותרפים 8655 ופסל 6459 ומסכה 4541 ועתה 6258 דעו 3045 מה 4100 תעשׂו׃ 6213
