Ask counsel … of God i.e. by means of the ephod or sacred lot. To consult the divine will in this way was one of the special functions of the priesthood; see 1 Samuel 6:2; 1 Samuel 14:18 (RVm.), 1 Samuel 22:10; 1 Samuel 23:9-12 etc. So long as sacrificial acts were freely performed by laymen, the chief distinction of the priest doubtless lay in his qualification to give an oracle: W. R Smith, OTJC., p. 292.
Verse Judges 18:5. _ASK COUNSEL - OF GOD_] As the Danites use the word אלהים _Elohim_ here for _God_, we are necessarily led to believe that they meant the true God; especially as the Levite answers,...
The sight of the ephod and teraphim suggested the notion of inquiring of God....
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
JUDGES 17-18. This section is the first of two supplements. It explains the origin of the famous shrine at Dan, and the _naî veté_ of its moral and religious ideas proves how ancient it is. In not a f...
THE DANITE SCOUTS AT THE HOUSE OF MICAH. This chapter is of great value as an illustration of the mode in which an Israelitish tribe found a settlement in the country. We are taken back almost to the...
ASK COUNSEL. By the use of the ephod. See Judges 17:6. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. Not Jehovah. App-4....
THEY SAID UNTO HIM, ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD— These two verses prove, what we have before observed on the 5th verse of the foregoing chapter, that this sanctuary of Micah was dedicated to the...
_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...
_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 LA...
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....
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...
ASK COUNSEL... OF GOD. — Doubtless Jonathan showed them the glittering ephod. There were no prophets of whom to inquire, as in 1 Kings 22:5; but their unauthorised inquiry was liable to the strong cen...
וַ יֹּ֥אמְרוּ לֹ֖ו שְׁאַל ־נָ֣א בֵ אלֹהִ֑ים
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...
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...
At the last census, Dan had numbered 64,400 males of 20 years old upward and the land alotted to them would have been sufficient had the Amorites not forced them into the mountains (see Numbers 26:42-...
_Lord ( Elohim.) A title sometimes given to false gods. The Levite answered in the name of Jehova; whence it is inferred that they all adored the true God, though their worship was not clear of supers...
And still advancing in iniquity, instead of recommending them to the God of their fathers, to give them the pretended oracle of a god of silver! Was there no God in Israel, that they should enquire of...
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...
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...
AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD,.... They did not reprove him for assuming the priestly office, when they knew he was a Levite, such was the corruption of those times, and th...
And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. Ver. 5. _Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God._] _Videntur non minus leves fu...
_They lodged there_ Not in the same house, but near it. _They knew the voice of the young man_ Having been acquainted with him before he came to live with Micah. _Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God_ By...
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....
And they, also so weak in their religious convictions and knowledge that they found no fault with the man for his action, SAID UNTO HIM, ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD, THAT WE MAY KNOW WHETHER OUR...
THE DANITES SEEK A NEW LOCATION...
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...
ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD, to wit, by thine ephod, or teraphim, or images, which they knew he had, JUDGES 18:14....
Judges 18:5 said H559 (H8799) inquire H7592 (H8798) God H430 know H3045 (H8799) journey H1870 go...
‘ And they said to him, “Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we may know whether our way in which we go will be prosperous.” ' When they heard what his position was they asked him to make enquiry o...
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...
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...
_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...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 18:5 Considering the highly negative tone of chs. Judges 17:1 and future events in this particular narrative ...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 22:5; 2 Kings 16:15; Acts 8:10; Ezekiel 21:21; Hosea 4:12;...
Ask — By thine Ephod, and Teraphim, or images, which they knew he had, Judges 18:14....