Answered — That is, spake, the word answering being often used in scripture of the first speaker. These houses — That is, in one of these houses. What to do — Whether it be not expedient to take them for your farther use.
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Judges 18:14
14 Then 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 these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.