3When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; and they turned aside and said to him, |Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?|


In Context

1 In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in; for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.

2 So the Danites sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Esh'ta-ol, to spy out the land and to explore it; and they said to them, |Go and explore the land.| And they came to the hill country of E'phraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

3 When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; and they turned aside and said to him, |Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?|

4 And he said to them, |Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.|

5 And they said to him, |Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.|

Judges 18:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:3When they were near Micah's house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they turned in there and asked him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:3When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place?] and what hast thou here?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:3And knowing the voice of the young man the Levite, and lodging with him, they said to him: Who brought thee hither? what dost thou here? why wouldst thou come hither?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said to him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:3When 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?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:3They are with the household of Micah, and they have discerned the voice of the young man, the Levite, and turn aside there, and say to him, 'Who hath brought thee hither? and what art thou doing in this place? and what to thee here?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what make you in this place? and what have you here?