Judges 18:2

From their coasts. — Literally, their ends (Genesis 19:4; 1 Kings 12:31). Some explain it to mean “from their whole number.”

Men of valour. — Literally, sons of force (Judges 21:10).

To spy out the land. — As in Joshua 2:1.

They came to mount Ephraim. — It would have been an easier journey to pass along the Shephelah, but that was mainly in the hands of the original inhabitants.

To the house of Micah. — There is no necessity for the supposition that they did not actually lodge in the house, or, at any rate, in the khan which doubtless formed part of the settlement. The centre of a new and gorgeous worship was sure to have places around it where those could lodge who came to consult the pesel-ephod (see Judges 18:18), just as even the ordinary synagogues had lodgings for wayfarers.