Teks -- Judges 18:14 (NET)

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jdg 18:14 - Answered

That is, spake, the word answering being often used in scripture of the first speaker.

Wesley: Jdg 18:14 - These houses

That is, in one of these houses.

Wesley: Jdg 18:14 - What to do

Whether it be not expedient to take them for your farther use.

Clarke: Jdg 18:14 - Consider what ye have to do

Consider what ye have to do - They probably had formed the design to carry off the priest and his sacred utensils.

TSK: Jdg 18:14 - Then // in these // now therefore

Then : 1Sa 14:28

in these : Jdg 18:3, Jdg 18:4, Jdg 17:5

now therefore : Pro 19:27; Isa 8:19, Isa 8:20

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jdg 18:14 - Then answered // In those houses // Consider what ye have to do

Then answered i.e. spake, the word answering being oft used in Scripture of the first speaker, as 1Ki 1:28 13:6 Ezr 10:2 Isa 14:10 .

In those houses , i.e. in one of these houses, the plural number for the singular, as Jud 12:7 .

Consider what ye have to do i.e. whether it be not expedient, either,

1. To consult them again for your own satisfaction; or rather,

2. To take them away for your further use, as you shall have occasion; for their action is the best comment upon their words.

Haydock: Jdg 18:14 - To do

To do. Whether we must take them by force or by craft. (Haydock) ---

It seems they had a premeditated design to seize them. (Calmet)

Gill: Jdg 18:14 - Then they answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish // and said unto their brethren, do ye know that there is in those houses // an ephod and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image // now therefore consider // what ye have to do

Then they answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish,.... That were sent by their brethren, Jdg 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 Jdg 17:4 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.