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Verse Judges 18:11. _SIX HUNDRED MEN_] These were not the whole, for
we find they had children, c., Judges 18:21 but these appear to have
been six hundred _armed_ men....
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CHAPTER 18 THE DANITE IDOLATRY
_ 1. The Danites seek an inheritance (Judges 18:1)_
2. Their robbery (Judges 18:13)
3. Laish taken and idolatry consummated (Judges 18:27)
The history of this chapter
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APPOINTED. girded....
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_six hundred men_ Not the whole clan, but only the more enterprising
members of it; the rest remained behind in the south. The armed men
took their women and children with them (Judges 18:21); altoget...
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_Micah and the Danites Judges 18:1-31_
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 inherit...
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_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...
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THE DANITES GO IN QUEST OF AN INHERITANCE. THEY ROB MICAH OF HIS
IMAGES, CAPTURE AND SETTLE IN LAISH, AND SET UP IDOL-WORSHIP THERE
1-10. The Danite Spies....
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SIX HUNDRED MEN] cp. Judges 20:47 a very small number when compared
with those given in Judges 20:15; Judges 20:17 or Judges 15:15;...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 18
V1 At that time, *Israel’s people had no king. Dan’s *tribe were
looking for a place where they might live. They had not yet received
any area th...
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APPOINTED. — Literally, _girded._ This was not a mere raid of
warriors, but the migration of a section from the tribe, accompanied
by their wives and children, and carrying their possessions with them...
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וַ יִּסְע֤וּ מִ שָּׁם֙ מִ
מִּשְׁפַּ֣חַת הַ
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THE STOLEN GODS
Judges 17:1, Judges 18:1
THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth
chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with
that which has gone b...
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The account of the backsliding of individuals is followed by an
illustration of its widespread existence among the people. While
seeking new territory the Danites found Micah and the condition of
thin...
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Encouraged by the report of the spies, 600 men of Dan set off with
weapons to attack the city. When they came to mount Ephraim, the spies
told them about the house of God with the image and priest. Th...
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_War, besides their wives, &c., ver. 21._...
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Is it not strange, that only 600 men went up armed on this occasion,
when we know that the tribe of Dan when they first entered Canaan,
were more than 64 thousand? Had sin and a departure from the Lor...
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My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire
to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar
character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21.
The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical
order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of
the...
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AND THERE WENT FROM THENCE OF THE FAMILY OF THE DANITES,.... Or
families, the singular being put for the plural; for it can hardly be
thought that such a number of men, as after mentioned, went out of...
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_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._
Ver. 11. _Six hundred men._] Picked out for the purpose, and...
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1 The Danites send fiue men to seeke out an inheritance.
3 At the house of Micah they consult with Ionathan, and are incouraged
in their way.
7 They search Laish, and bring backe newes of good hope....
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THE DANITES SEEK A NEW LOCATION...
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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,
fully armed for battle, each man with his family....
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SPIES SENT FROM DAN TO SEEK PROPERTY
(vv. 1-10)
At that time, though the tribe of Dan had been allotted territory west
of Benjamin, bordering the Mediterranean Sea (Joshua 19:40), yet this
was large...
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APPOINTED:
_ Heb._ girded...
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OF THE FAMILY; by which it again appears, that the _tribe_, JUDGES
18:1, is put for family....
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Judges 18:11 six H8337 hundred H3967 men H376 family H4940 Danites
H1839 went H5265 (H8799) Zorah H6881 Eshtaol...
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‘ And there set out from there of the family of the Danites, out of
Zorah, and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war.'
The decision having been made a powerful contingent of ‘six h...
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CONTENTS: The Danite invasion. Civil and religious confusion.
CHARACTERS: Micah, Jonathan, priests.
CONCLUSION: Many seek to justify themselves in their idolatrous
impiety by the prosperity that see...
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Judges 18:1. _Inheritance had not fallen to them._ Dan had the seventh
lot, but not enough for all his families.
Judges 18:5. _Ask counsel of God._ Here was another total breach, both
with God's sanct...
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_The Danites sought them an inheritance _. .. _ They set them up
Micah’s graven image._
THE IMAGE-WORSHIP EXPANDING INTO TRIBAL IDOLATRY
I. The straits to which unbelief reduces the strong (Judges 1...
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THE IMAGE WORSHIP EXPANDING INTO TRIBAL IDOLATRY
_HOMILETICS_
I. THE STRAITS TO WHICH UNBELIEF REDUCES THE STRONG. Judges 18:1.
“The tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in.” Not
that th...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 18:1
IN THOSE DAYS, etc. See Judges 17:6. THE TRIBE OF THE DANITES SOUGHT
THEM AN INHERITANCE, etc. This does not mean that the whole tribe of
Dan were still seeking their inheritan...
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Now that is setting the stage for the rest of this story. You got now
this Levite, young kid from Bethlehem as a professional religious
priest, personal priest of Micah in his house.
Now, in those da...
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Judges 18:11...