5:19 Kings came, they fought;
the kings of Canaan fought,
at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, 1
but 2 they took no silver as plunder.
18:27 Now the Danites 5 took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city. 6
1 map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.
2 tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.
3 tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”
4 tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”
5 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.