Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Judges 18:31
the house Of God: i.e. the Tabernacle of Moses, but not recognized as the house of Jehovah, the Covenant God.
the house Of God: i.e. the Tabernacle of Moses, but not recognized as the house of Jehovah, the Covenant God.
In the Hebrew text the name here rendered Manasseh is written MN)- SH. Without the “N” (nun) suspended over the line, the word may be read: Moses, whose son was Gershom Exodus 2:22, whose son or desce...
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
THE DANITES GET POSSESSION OF A SACRED IMAGE. Kiriath-jearim (the city of forests) is perhaps Kuriat el -' enab. There was a Mahaneh-dan (camp of Dan) between Zorah and Eshtaol, but more than one plac...
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...
This verse is clearly not by the same hand as the foregoing. _the house of God … in Shiloh_ Not a tabernacle, or moveable tent, but a temple; see 1 Samuel 1:7; 1 Samuel 1:24; 1 Samuel 3:15. We are not...
_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 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 Shilo...
IN SHILOH] NE. of Bethel, where the ark was kept in the 'house of God' (1 Samuel 1-4). The destruction of this 'house' is mentioned in Jeremiah 7:12; Jeremiah 26:9. Possibly it was destroyed by the Ph...
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...
AND THEY SET THEM UP MICAH’S GRAVEN IMAGE. — Rather, _entrusted to them, i.e.,_ to Jonathan’s descendants. The phrase “set them up” can only have been used by inadvertence by our translators in this v...
וַ יָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לָהֶ֔ם אֶת ־פֶּ֥סֶל מִיכָ֖ה אֲ
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...
The people of Dan took the things that had belonged to Micah and went on to Laish. They defeated the people with the sword and burned their city which lay in the valley which was the source of the Jor...
_In Silo. The ark was taken by the Philistines, (1 Kings iv.) after remaining at Silo 349 years, and 217 from the idolatry of Michas and of Dan. (Salien) (Haydock) --- In those. The Hebrew here commen...
REFLECTIONS BEHOLD my soul! what dreadful effects the fall of man and his apostacy from God, hath wrought in the human heart. Behold! how general and even universal that apostacy is by nature. Well mi...
I hasten to close the awful account of this tribe, for nothing can give a more horrible description of their degeneracy, than that as soon as they had conquered Laish, and settled themselves in their...
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 SET THEM UP MICAH'S GRAVEN IMAGE, WHICH HE MADE,.... Which is repeated for the sake of the time of its continuance next expressed: ALL THE TIME THE HOUSE OF GOD WAS IN SHILOH; which, accordi...
_And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh._ Ver. 31. _All the time, &c,_] Till Samuel threw down this and other idols. 1Sa 7:3...
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 set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. Mark: Idolatry in every form, false doctrine, quickly and easily finds adherents and is hard...
THE PRIEST OF MICAH TAKEN TO LAISH...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 18:31 up H7760 (H8799) Micahs H4318 image H6459 made H6213 (H8804) time H3117 house H1004 God...
‘ And the children of Dan set up for themselves the graven image, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the capti...
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 18:30 The Levite’s name is revealed (JONATHAN), as well as his lineage. Even those in the family of MOSES are rebelling against God. CAPTIVITY OF THE LAND cou
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 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 4:4; Jeremiah 7:12; Joshua 18:1; Judges 19:18;...