Judges 18:1

JUDGES CHAPTER 18 Those of the tribe of Dan, having not sufficient inheritance, send forth five men to spy out a place; they come to the house of Micah, and desire the Levite to ask counsel of God touching their journey, Judges 18:1. He encouraging them, they spy out the city Laish; and at their return instigate their brethren to set upon the city, Judges 18:6. Six hundred go forth armed: in their march they seize upon Micah's priest and idols; which he in vain, demandeth again, Judges 18:11. They pull down Laish; build it again; inhabit it; and call it Dan, Judges 18:26; consecrate their priest, and set up Micah's images, Judges 18:30,31. In those days; not long after Joshua's death, of which See Poole on "Judges 17:6". The tribe of the Danites; a part or branch of that tribe, consisting only of six hundred men of war, Judges 18:16, with their families, Judges 18:21: or, a family of the Danites; for the word schebet, which properly signifies a tribe, is sometimes taken for a family, as Judges 20:12, as elsewhere family is put for a tribe, as Malachi 12:13. All their inheritance had not fallen unto them; the lot had fallen to them before this time, Joshua 19:40, &c., but not the actual possession of their lot, because therein the Philistines and Amorites opposed them, not without success. See Poole on "Joshua 19:40"; See Poole on "Judges 1:34".