Judges 18:21

_AND THEY WENT UP, AND PITCHED IN KIRJATH-JE'ARIM, IN JUDAH: WHEREFORE THEY CALLED THAT PLACE MAHANEHDAN UNTO THIS DAY: BEHOLD, IT IS BEHIND KIRJATH-JE'ARIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Verse Judges 18:21. _THE LITTLE ONES AND THE CATTLE, C._] These men were so confident of success that they removed their whole families, household goods, cattle, and all. _AND THE CARRIAGE_] כבודה _kebudah_, their _substance, precious_ _things_, or _valuables omne quod erat pretiosum_, VULGATE: or rather the _luggage_ or _baggage_; what _Caesar_ calls in his commentaries _impedimenta_; and what the _Septuagint_ here translate βαρος, _weight_ or _baggage_. We are not to suppose that any _wheel carriage_ is meant....

AND PUT THE LITTLE ONES, ETC., BEFORE THEM - They expected a pursuit from Micah’s people, and arranged their order of march accordingly. THE CARRIAGE - Rather, “the valuables.” Some interpret it “the heavy baggage.”...

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 inheritance. The bulk of the tribe, as we read in Joshua 19:40-6, did receive their inheritance by lot before the death of Joshua (Joshua 19:49) and Eleazar (Joshua 19:51). But as long as any part of the tribe was not settled, the tribe as such, in its unity, was still seeking a settlement. The land for

SO THEY TURNED AND DEPARTED,.... Turned from the gate of the city where Micah dwelt, and marched forward to Laish: AND PUT THE LITTLE ONES, AND THE CATTLE, AND THE CARRIAGE, BEFORE THEM; partly for safety from Micah, and his friends and neighbours, and partly that they might not be overdriven: their wives, who doubtless were with them, though not mentioned, and their children, and also their flocks and herds, they brought with them from Zorah and Eshtaol, as never intending to return again thither, and being fully assured they should take Laish, and the country about, and settle there; and also all their wealth and substance, as the Targum renders the word for "carriage", whatever they were possessed of that was movable; their vessels, silver and gold, and other movables, as Kimchi interprets it, whatever was weighty, valuable and glorious, as the word signifies, or that was of any impo...

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 is closely linked with the preceding. The tribe of Dan had failed to take the God-given inheritance (Joshua 19:40). “The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley” (Judges 1:34). Then in self-will, entirely disregarding the will of God, they sent out spies to

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 few places the text has evidently been tampered with by scribes, who took offence at practices which were from a later point of view irregular. The events in question must have occurred before the time of Deborah (Judges 5:17)....

CARRIAGE. goods. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for things carried....

If there were _little ones_there must have been women to look after them. Budde would supply the omission, but unnecessarily. _the goods_ In the Hebr. a fem. sing., _the wealthy_, cf. Genesis 31:1 RVm., Isaiah 10:3 (translated _glory_). The LXX. cod. B takes the word in its primary sense -the _heavy_baggage....

_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 inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there, 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here? 4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. 5 And they said un