Is it not strange, that only 600 men went up armed on this occasion, when we know that the tribe of Dan when they first entered Canaan, were more than 64 thousand? Had sin and a departure from the Lord thinned their numbers? A solemn question!
Verse Judges 18:7. _AFTER THE MANNER OF THE ZIDONIANS_] Probably the people of _Laish_ or _Leshem_ were originally a colony of the _Sidonians_, who, it appears, were an opulent people; and, being in...
LAISH - Afterward called “Dan” Judges 18:29. The exact site has not been identified, but it was the northern extremity of Israel, near the sources of the Jordan, and about four miles from Panium, or C...
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...
LAISH. Called Leshem. Joshua 19:47. QUIET AND SECURE. Probably arising from the enervating effects of malaria now endemic there. If so, it may be identified with _Tel-el-kadi_ in the feverridden dist...
_Laish_ In Joshua 19:47 Leshem. After the place was occupied by the Danites and re-named, it became the most northerly of Israelite settlements; cf. 2 Samuel 24:6; Jeremiah 4:15, and the expression -f...
CAME TO LAISH— See on Judges 19:47 where this history is briefly told by way of anticipation. The Zidonians were a powerful people in a strong city; and therefore they indulged securely in peace and l...
_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...
_THEN THE FIVE MEN DEPARTED, AND CAME TO LAISH, AND SAW THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THEREIN, HOW THEY DWELT CARELESS, AFTER THE MANNER OF THE ZIDONIANS, QUIET AND SECURE; AND THERE WAS NO MAGISTRATE IN THE L...
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....
LAISH] In Joshua 19:47 the name appears as Leshem. Later on it was called Dan, from its new inhabitants (cp. Judges 18:29, and chapter Judges 20:1). It lay near Lebanon and the sources of the Jordan i...
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...
LAISH. — It is called _Leshem_ in Joshua 19:47, and is now called _Tel el-Kadi,_ “the mound of _the judge,”_ possibly (though not probably) with some reference to the name of Dan (Genesis 49:16). It i...
וַ יֵּלְכוּ֙ חֲמֵ֣שֶׁת הָ אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וַ יָּבֹ
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-...
Lais, four miles from Paneas, towards Tyre. It is called Lesem Dan; (Josue xix 47.) both the ancient and the new name being joined together. --- Rich, Hebrew has almost as many different meanings as i...
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 THE FIVE MEN DEPARTED,.... From Mount Ephraim, and Micah's house there: AND CAME TO LAISH; which, according to Bunting s, was one hundred and four miles from Mount Ephraim, and so many he makes i...
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in th...
_After the manner of the Zidonians_ Who, dwelling in a very strong place, and abounding in wealth, lived securely in peace and luxury, and were imitated therein by the people of Laish, who were grown...
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....
Then the five men departed, continuing their scouting expedition, AND CAME TO LAISH, in the extreme northern part of Canaan, east of the headwaters of Jordan, AND SAW THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THEREIN, who...
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...
MAGISTRATE: _ Heb._ possessOr, or heir of restraint...
LAISH, called also _Leshem_, JOSHUA 19:47. AFTER THE MANNER OF THE ZIDONIANS, who living in a very strong place, and abounding in wealth, and understanding that they were not a part of that land which...
Judges 18:7 five H2568 men H582 departed H3212 (H8799) went H935 (H8799) Laish H3919 saw H7200 ...
‘ And the five men departed, and came to Laish and saw the people who were in it, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure. For there was no one in the land poss...
LAISH called Leshem. (Joshua 19:47)....
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...
TAKEN BY SURPRISE They dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure. Judges 18:7 (AV). Long, long ago, many hundreds of years before Christ came to the earth, there was a city...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 18:7 LAISH was about 25 miles (40 km) north of the Sea of Galilee, making the Danites’ trip from Zorah and Eshtaol to Laish about a hundred miles (161 km). Laish was renamed Dan...
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 1:6; 1 Peter 2:14; 1 Samuel 3:13; Joshua 19:47; Judges 18:27;...
Manner of the Zidonians — Who living in a very strong place, and abounding in wealth, and perceiving that the Israelites never attempted anything against them, were grown secure and careless. Put to s...