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Jdg 18:3 — When 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?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

they knew		They knew by his dialect or mode of pronunciation, that he was not an Ephraimite: see the parallel texts. Jdg 12:6; Gen 27:22; Mat 26:73
and what hast		Isa 22:16

Correlating Passages

they knew

	Jdg 12:6	Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
	Gen 27:22	And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau.
	Mat 26:73	And after a while came unto [him] they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art [one] of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.

and what hast

Isa 22:16

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

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Scott, Thomas. "Judges 18:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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