Judges 18:8-10

The Scouts at Laish. Laish was at the source of the Jordan, being either the modern Tell el Kâ di or Banias (p. 32). Zidonians stands here for Phœ nicians (cf. Judges 10:12). These were a quiet, industrious trading people, and the men of Laish were after their manner, being, indeed perhaps a Phœ nician settlement They were the kind of people for whom the Danite scouts were looking a people easy to conquer! The moral question as to the right of overpowering and disinheriting a quiet and secure peasantry was never raised. At the Bedouin stage of culture, might is right.