Judges 18:2-3

18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, ¹  capable men ²  from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house. ³  18:3 As they approached ⁴  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ⁵  of the young Levite. So they stopped ⁶  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ⁷ 

Judges 17:1

Micah Makes His Own Religion

17:1 There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

Judges 19:1

Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited

19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite ⁸  living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine ⁹  from Bethlehem ¹⁰  in Judah.

Joshua 24:30

24:30 They buried him in his allotted territory ¹¹  in Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Joshua 24:33

24:33 Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, where his son Phinehas had been assigned land. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”

² tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

³ tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”

⁴ tn Or “When they were near.”

⁵ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

⁶ tn Heb “turned aside.”

⁷ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

⁸ tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”

⁹ sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.

¹⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

¹¹ tn Heb “in the territory of his inheritance.”

¹² tn Heb “in Gibeah of Phinehas, his son, which had been given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.”