사사기 18

1그 때에 이스라엘에 왕이 없었고 단 지파는 이 때에 거할 기업의 땅을 구하는 중이었으니 이는 그들이 이스라엘 지파 중에서 이때까지 기업의 땅 분배함을 얻지 못하였음이라 2단 자손이 소라와 에스다올에서부터 자기 온 가족 중 용맹 있는 다섯 사람을 보내어 땅을 탐지하고 살피게 하며 그들에게 이르되 너희는 가서 땅을 살펴보라 하매 그들이 에브라임 산지에 가서 미가의 집에 이르러 거기서 유숙하니라 3그들이 미가의 집에 가까이 올 때에 레위 소년의 음성을 알아듣고 그리로 돌이켜 가서 그에게 이르되 누가 너를 이리로 인도하였으며 네가 여기서 무엇을 하며 여기서 무엇을 얻었느냐 4그가 그들에게 이르되 미가가 여차여차히 나를 대접하여 나를 고빙하여 나로 자기 제사장을 삼았느니라 5그들이 그에게 이르되 청컨대 우리를 위하여 하나님께 물어보아서 우리의 행하는 길이 형통할는지 우리에게 알게 하라 6그 제사장이 그들에게 이르되 평안히 가라 너희의 행하는 길은 여호와 앞에 있느니라 7이에 다섯 사람이 떠나 라이스에 이르러 거기 있는 백성을 본즉 염려 없이 거하여 시돈 사람 같이 한가하고 평안하니 그 땅에는 권세 잡은 자가 없어서 무슨 일에든지 괴롭게 함이 없고 시돈 사람과 상거가 멀며 아무 사람과도 상관하지 아니함이라 8그들이 소라와 에스다올에 돌아와서 그 형제에게 이르매 형제들이 그들에게 묻되 너희 보기에 어떠하더뇨 9가로대 일어나서 그들을 치러 올라가자 우리가 그 땅을 본즉 매우 좋더라 너희는 가만히 있느냐 나아가서 그 땅 얻기를 게을리 말라 10너희가 가면 평안한 백성을 만날 것이요 그 땅은 넓고 그 곳에는 세상에 있는 것이 하나도 부족함이 없느니라 11단 지파 가족 중 육백 명이 병기를 띠고 소라와 에스다올에서 출발하여 12올라가서 유다 기럇여아림에 진 치니 이러므로 그곳 이름이 오늘까지 마하네단이며 그곳은 기럇여아림 뒤에 있더라 13무리가 거기서 떠나서 에브라임 산지 미가의 집에 이르니라 14전에 라이스 땅을 탐지하러 갔던 다섯 사람이 그 형제들에게 말하여 가로되 이 집에 에봇과 드라빔과 새긴 신상과 부어만든 신상이 있는 줄을 너희가 아느냐 그런즉 이제 너희는 마땅히 행할 것을 생각하라 하고 15다섯 사람이 그 편으로 향하여 소년 레위 사람의 집 곧 미가의 집에 이르러 문안하고 16단 자손 육백 명은 병기를 띠고 문 입구에 서니라 17땅을 탐지하러 갔던 다섯 사람이 그리로 들어가서 새긴 신상과 에봇과 드라빔과 부어 만든 신상을 취할 때에 제사장은 병기를 띤 육백 명과 함께 문 입구에 섰더니 18그 다섯 사람이 미가의 집에 들어가서 그 새긴 신상과 에봇과 드라빔과 부어 만든 신상을 취하여 내매 제사장이 그들에게 묻되 너희가 무엇을 하느냐 19그들이 그에게 이르되 잠잠하라 네 손을 입에 대라 우리와 함께 가서 우리의 아비와 제사장이 되라 네가 한 사람의 집의 제사장이 되는 것과 이스라엘 한 지파, 한 가족의 제사장이 되는 것이 어느 것이 낫겠느냐 20제사장이 마음에 기뻐하여 에봇과 드라빔과 새긴 우상을 취하고 그 백성 중으로 들어가니라 21그들이 돌이켜서 어린 아이들과 가축과 물품을 앞에 두고 진행하더니 22미가의 집을 멀리 떠난 때에 미가의 이웃집 사람들이 모여서 단 자손을 따라 미쳐서는 23단 자손을 부르는지라 그들이 낯을 돌이켜 미가에게 이르되 네가 무슨 일로 이같이 모아가지고 왔느냐 24미가가 가로되 나의 지은 신들과 제사장을 취하여 갔으니 내게 오히려 있는 것이 무엇이냐 너희가 어찌하여 나더러 무슨 일이냐 하느냐 25단 자손이 그에게 이르되 네 목소리를 우리에게 들리게 말라 노한 자들이 너희를 쳐서 네 생명과 네 가족의 생명을 잃게 할까 하노라 하고 26단 자손이 자기 길을 행한지라 미가가 단 자손이 자기보다 강한 것을 보고 돌이켜 집으로 돌아갔더라 27단 자손이 미가의 지은 것과 그 제사장을 취하고 라이스에 이르러 한가하고 평안한 백성을 만나 칼날로 그들을 치며 불로 그 성읍을 사르되 28그들을 구원할 자가 없었으니 그 성읍이 베드르흡 가까운 골짜기에 있어서 시돈과 상거가 멀고 상종하는 사람도 없음이었더라 단 자손이 성읍을 중건하고 거기 거하며 29이스라엘의 소생 그 조상 단의 이름을 따라 그 성읍을 단이라 하니라 그 성읍의 본 이름은 라이스더라 30단 자손이 자기를 위하여 그 새긴 신상을 세웠고 모세의 손자 게르손의 아들 요나단과 그 자손은 단 지파의 제사장이 되어 이 백성이 사로 잡히는 날까지 이르렀더라 31하나님의 집이 실로에 있을 동안에 미가의 지은바 새긴 신상이 단 자손에게 있었더라

1In those days there was no king in Israel: and 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. 2The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. 3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?” 4He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.” 5They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.” 6The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.” 7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, 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 any man. 8They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, “What do you say?” 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. 10When you go, you shall come to a secure people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.” 11There set out from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war. 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. 13They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. 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.” 15They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare. 16The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. 17The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war. 18When these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?” 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?” 20The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people. 21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the livestock and the goods before them. 22When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan. 23They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?” 24He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what more do I have? How then do you say to me, ‘What ails you?’” 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.” 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. 27They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire. 28There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein. 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 was Laish at the first. 30The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. 31So they set them up Micah’s engraved image which he made, all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.

1In die dagen was er geen koning in Israel; en in dezelve dagen zocht de stam der Danieten voor zich een erfenis om te wonen; want hun was tot op dien dag onder de stammen van Israel niet genoegzaam ter erfenis toegevallen. 2Zo zonden de kinderen van Dan uit hun geslacht vijf mannen uit hun einden, mannen, die strijdbaar waren, van Zora en van Esthaol, om het land te verspieden, en dat te doorzoeken; en zij zeiden tot hen: Gaat, doorzoekt het land. En zij kwamen aan het gebergte van Efraim, tot aan het huis van Micha, en vernachtten aldaar. 3Zijnde bij het huis van Micha, zo kenden zij de stem van den jongeling, den Leviet; en zij weken daarheen, en zeiden tot hem: Wie heeft u hier gebracht, en wat doet gij alhier, en wat hebt gij hier? 4En hij zeide tot hen: Zo en zo heeft Micha mij gedaan; en hij heeft mij gehuurd, en ik ben hem tot een priester. 5Toen zeiden zij tot hem: Vraag toch God, dat wij mogen weten, of onze weg, op welken wij wandelen, voorspoedig zal zijn. 6En de priester zeide tot hen: Gaat in vrede; uw weg, welke gij zult heentrekken, is voor den HEERE. 7Toen gingen die vijf mannen heen, en kwamen te Lais; en zij zagen het volk, hetwelk in derzelver midden was, zijnde gelegen in zekerheid, naar de wijze der Sidoniers, stil en zeker zijnde; en daar was geen erfheer, die iemand om enige zaak schande aandeed in dat land; ook waren zij verre van de Sidoniers, en hadden niets te doen met enigen mens. 8En zij kwamen tot hun broederen te Zora en te Esthaol, en hun broeders zeiden tot hen: Wat zegt gijlieden? 9En zij zeiden: Maakt u op, en laat ons tot hen optrekken; want wij hebben dat land bezien, en ziet, het is zeer goed; zoudt gij dan stil zijn? Weest niet lui om te trekken, dat gij henen inkomt, om dat land in erfelijke bezitting te nemen; 10(Als gij daarhenen komt, zo zult gij komen tot een zorgeloos volk, en dat land is wijd van ruimte) want God heeft het in uw hand gegeven; een plaats, alwaar geen gebrek is van enig ding, dat op de aarde is. 11Toen reisden van daar uit het geslacht der Danieten, van Zora en van Esthaol, zeshonderd man, aangegord met krijgswapenen. 12En zij togen op, en legerden zich bij Kirjath-Jearim, in Juda; daarom noemden zij deze plaats, Machane-Dan, tot op dezen dag; ziet, het is achter Kirjath-Jearim. 13En van daar togen zij door naar het gebergte van Efraim, en zij kwamen tot aan het huis van Micha. 14Toen antwoordden de vijf mannen, die gegaan waren om het land van Lais te verspieden, en zeiden tot hun broederen: Weet gijlieden ook, dat in die huizen een efod is, en terafim, en een gesneden en een gegoten beeld? Zo weet nu, wat u te doen zij. 15Toen weken zij daarheen, en kwamen aan het huis van den jongeling, den Leviet, ten huize van Micha; en zij vraagden hem naar vrede. 16En de zeshonderd mannen, die van de kinderen van Dan waren, met hun krijgswapenen aangegord, bleven staan aan de deur van de poort. 17Maar de vijf mannen, die gegaan waren om het land te verspieden, gingen op, kwamen daarhenen in, en namen weg het gesneden beeld, en den efod, en de terafim, en het gegoten beeld; de priester nu bleef staan aan de deur van de poort, met de zeshonderd mannen, die met krijgswapenen aangegord waren. 18Als die nu ten huize van Micha waren ingegaan, en het gesneden beeld, den efod, en de terafim, en het gegoten beeld weggenomen hadden, zo zeide de priester tot hen: Wat doet gijlieden? 19En zij zeiden tot hem: Zwijg, leg uw hand op uw mond, en ga met ons, en wees ons tot een vader en tot een priester! Is het beter, dat gij een priester zijt voor het huis van een man, of dat gij een priester zijt voor een stam, en een geslacht in Israel? 20Toen werd het hart van den priester vrolijk, en hij nam den efod, en de terafim, en het gesneden beeld, en hij kwam in het midden des volks. 21Alzo keerden zij zich, en togen voort; en zij stelden de kinderkens, en het vee, en de bagage voor zich. 22Als zij nu verre van Micha's huis gekomen waren, zo werden de mannen, zijnde in de huizen, die bij het huis van Micha waren, bijeengeroepen, en zij achterhaalden de kinderen van Dan. 23En zij riepen de kinderen van Dan na; dewelke hun aangezichten omkeerden, en zeiden tot Micha: Wat is u, dat gij bijeengeroepen zijt? 24Toen zeide hij: Gijlieden hebt mijn goden, die ik gemaakt had, weggenomen, mitsgaders den priester, en zijt weggegaan; wat heb ik nu meer? Wat is het dan, dat gij tot mij zegt: Wat is u? 25Maar de kinderen van Dan zeiden tot hem: Laat uw stem bij ons niet horen, opdat niet misschien mannen, van bitteren gemoede, op u aanvallen, en gij uw leven verliest, en het leven van uw huis. 26Alzo gingen de kinderen van Dan huns weegs; en Micha, ziende, dat zij sterker waren dan hij, zo keerde hij om, en kwam weder tot zijn huis. 27Zij dan namen wat Micha gemaakt had, en den priester, die hij gehad had, en kwamen te Lais, tot een stil en zeker volk, en sloegen hen met de scherpte des zwaards, en de stad verbrandden zij met vuur. 28En er was niemand, die hen verloste; want zij was verre van Sidon, en zij hadden niets met enigen mens te doen; en zij lag in het dal, dat bij Beth-Rechob is. Daarna herbouwden zij de stad, en woonden daarin. 29En zij noemden den naam der stad Dan, naar den naam huns vaders Dan, die aan Israel geboren was; hoewel de naam dezer stad te voren Lais was. 30En de kinderen van Dan richtten voor zich dat gesneden beeld op; en Jonathan, de zoon van Gersom, den zoon van Manasse, hij en zijn zonen waren priesters voor den stam der Danieten, tot den dag toe, dat het land gevankelijk is weggevoerd. 31Alzo stelden zij onder zich het gesneden beeld van Micha, dat hij gemaakt had, al de dagen, dat het huis Gods te Silo was.