Judges 18:28

_AND THERE WAS NO DELIVERER, BECAUSE IT WAS FAR FROM ZIDON, AND THEY HAD NO BUSINESS WITH ANY MAN; AND IT WAS IN THE VALLEY THAT LIETH BY BETHREHOB. AND THEY BUILT A CITY, AND DWELT THEREIN._ Built a city ......

Verse Judges 18:28. THERE WAS _NO DELIVERER_] They had no succour, because the Sidonians, from whom they might have expected it, were at too great a _distance_....

Rehob (as Dan afterward) is mentioned as the northernmost point of the land of Canaan Numbers 13:21, and its position is defined with reference to the entering in of Hamath. A CITY - Rather, “the” city. They rebuilt Laish, which they had burned down Judges 18:29....

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

AND THERE WAS NO DELIVERER, BECAUSE IT WAS FAR FROM ZIDON,.... Under whose government and protection they seem to have been; and that city being at a distance from them, and the Danites coming upon them suddenly, there was no time to send to them for help, or any to come in to their assistance, and save them from their enemies, see Judges 18:7 AND THEY HAD NO BUSINESS WITH ANY MAN; that could have given them notice of the design of the children of Dan against them, nor to the Zidonians to come soon enough for their protection and defence; none there were in alliance with them except them: AND IT WAS IN THE VALLEY THAT LIETH BY BETHREHOB; which lay in the northern border of the land of Canaan, as you go to Hamath of Syria, Numbers 13:21....

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)....

BUSINESS. dealings....

See on Judges 18:7. The city was too far off from the suzerain power to obtain any help; and as no alliances had been made with the Syrians (again reading _Aram_for _adam_= -any man"), there were no friendly neighbours to come to the rescue. _the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob_ or _that belongeth to B_. The depression through which the Jordan flows begins to open out at the S.W. foot of Hermon; this seems to be _the valley_alluded to. If, as is probable, Laish-Dan occupied the site of Tell el-Ḳâḍi, Beth-rehob may be identified with Bânias. According to 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8 Beth-rehob was a Syrian state....

_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