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Judges 18:29 KJV
Judges · chapter 18 · verse 29 · King James Version
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.Judges 18:29 · King James Version
Judges 18:29 in context
27And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
28And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
29And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
30And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
31And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Key words (Strong's)
- howbeitʼûwlâmhowever or on the contraryH199 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- LaishLayishLaish, the name of two places in PalestineH3919 →
- nameshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
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