_IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL: AND IN THOSE DAYS THE TRIBE OF THE DANITES SOUGHT THEM AN INHERITANCE TO DWELL IN; FOR UNTO THAT DAY ALL THEIR INHERITANCE HAD NOT FALLEN UNTO THEM AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL._ In those days ... the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in. The Dani... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF DAN SENT OF THEIR FAMILY FIVE MEN FROM THEIR COASTS, MEN OF VALOUR, FROM ZORAH, AND FROM ESHTAOL, TO SPY OUT THE LAND, AND TO SEARCH IT; AND THEY SAID UNTO THEM, GO, SEARCH THE LAND: WHO WHEN THEY CAME TO MOUNT EPHRAIM, TO THE HOUSE OF MICAH, THEY LODGED THERE._ No JFB commenta... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE FIVE MEN DEPARTED, AND CAME TO LAISH, AND SAW THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THEREIN, HOW THEY DWELT CARELESS, AFTER THE MANNER OF THE ZIDONIANS, QUIET AND SECURE; AND THERE WAS NO MAGISTRATE IN THE LAND, THAT MIGHT PUT THEM TO SHAME IN ANY THING; AND THEY WERE FAR FROM THE ZIDONIANS, AND HAD NO BUS... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CAME UNTO THEIR BRETHREN TO ZORAH AND ESHTAOL: AND THEIR BRETHREN SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT SAY YE?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE WENT FROM THENCE OF THE FAMILY OF THE DANITES, OUT OF ZORAH AND OUT OF ESHTAOL, SIX HUNDRED MEN APPOINTED WITH WEAPONS OF WAR._ There went from thence of the family of the Danites ... six hundred men. This was the collective number of the men who were equipped with arms to carry out this... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY WENT UP, AND PITCHED IN KIRJATH-JE'ARIM, IN JUDAH: WHEREFORE THEY CALLED THAT PLACE MAHANEHDAN UNTO THIS DAY: BEHOLD, IT IS BEHIND KIRJATH-JE'ARIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY WERE A GOOD WAY FROM THE HOUSE OF MICAH, THE MEN THAT WERE IN THE HOUSES NEAR TO MICAH'S HOUSE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND OVERTOOK THE CHILDREN OF DAN._ The men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together. The robbery of the chapel having been discovered, th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CRIED UNTO THE CHILDREN OF DAN. AND THEY TURNED THEIR FACES, AND SAID UNTO MICAH, WHAT AILETH THEE, THAT THOU COMEST WITH SUCH A COMPANY?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF DAN SAID UNTO HIM, LET NOT THY VOICE BE HEARD AMONG US, LEST ANGRY FELLOWS RUN UPON THEE, AND THOU LOSE THY LIFE, WITH THE LIVES OF THY HOUSEHOLD._ The children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us ... Both Micah and the Danites attached great importance to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF DAN WENT THEIR WAY: AND WHEN MICAH SAW THAT THEY WERE TOO STRONG FOR HIM, HE TURNED AND WENT BACK UNTO HIS HOUSE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOOK THE THINGS WHICH MICAH HAD MADE, AND THE PRIEST WHICH HE HAD, AND CAME UNTO LAISH, UNTO A PEOPLE THAT WERE AT QUIET AND SECURE: AND THEY SMOTE THEM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND BURNT THE CITY WITH FIRE._ They ... came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE WAS NO DELIVERER, BECAUSE IT WAS FAR FROM ZIDON, AND THEY HAD NO BUSINESS WITH ANY MAN; AND IT WAS IN THE VALLEY THAT LIETH BY BETHREHOB. AND THEY BUILT A CITY, AND DWELT THEREIN._ Built a city ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CALLED THE NAME OF THE CITY DAN, AFTER THE NAME OF DAN THEIR FATHER, WHO WAS BORN UNTO ISRAEL: HOWBEIT THE NAME OF THE CITY WAS LAISH AT THE FIRST._ Called the name of the city Dan. It was in the northern extremity of the land; and hence, the origin of the phrase, "from Dan to Beer-sheba.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF DAN SET UP THE GRAVEN IMAGE: AND JONATHAN, THE SON OF GERSHOM, THE SON OF MANASSEH, HE AND HIS SONS WERE PRIESTS TO THE TRIBE OF DAN UNTIL THE DAY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF THE LAND._ The children of Dan set up the graven image. Their distance secluded them from the rest of the Israe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SET THEM UP MICAH'S GRAVEN IMAGE, WHICH HE MADE, ALL THE TIME THAT THE HOUSE OF GOD WAS IN SHILOH._ They set them up Micah's graven image ... all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. This early apostasy to idolatry, with the infamy subsequently attached to Dan, by its being the c... [ Continue Reading ]