Judges 18:6
What meaning of the judges 18:6 in the Bible?
What does Judges 18:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go."
What does Judges 18:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go."
BEFORE THE LORD ... - i. e. He looks favorably upon it. (Compare Ezra 8:21.)...
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...
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...
_before the Lord_ i.e. under His favourable regard. Cf. 1 Samuel 1:17; 1 Kings 22:6 for similar responses....
_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 THE CHILDREN OF DAN SENT OF THEIR FAMILY FIVE MEN FROM THEIR COASTS, MEN OF VALOUR, FROM ZORAH, AND FROM ESHTAOL, TO SPY OUT THE LAND, AND TO SEARCH IT; AND THEY SAID UNTO THEM, GO, SEARCH THE LA...
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...
BEFORE THE LORD IS YOUR WAY — i.e., _Jehovah looks favourably upon it._ (Comp. Proverbs 5:21; Ezra 8:21.) The answer had, however, some of the oracular ambiguity. Jonathan did not stake his own credit...
וַ יֹּ֧אמֶר לָהֶ֛ם הַ כֹּהֵ֖ן לְכ֣וּ לְ שָׁלֹ֑ום נֹ֣כַח יְהוָ֔ה דַּרְכְּכֶ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר תֵּֽלְכוּ ־בָֽהּ׃ פ
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-...
And the priest said unto them, (d) Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go. (d) Thus sometimes God grants the idolaters requests to the destruction of those who delight in errors....
_Looketh with approbation. (Haydock) --- It is uncertain whether this prediction proceeded from God, from the devil, or from the crafty Levite, (Calmet) who might answer as he thought the messengers w...
And still advancing in iniquity, instead of recommending them to the God of their fathers, to give them the pretended oracle of a god of silver! Was there no God in Israel, that they should enquire of...
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 PRIEST SAID TO THEM, GO IN PEACE,.... After he had consulted the oracle, or had asked counsel by the ephod and teraphim; either of his own head, or by a voice he had heard, which Satan might b...
And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go. Ver. 6. Go in peace: before the Lord is your way.] A doubtful answer; as the wary devil useth to be λοξις, equ...
_The priest said, Before the Lord is your way_ Your design is under the eye of God; that is, under his direction, protection, and care. The priest undoubtedly feigned this answer; for it is not to be...
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....
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 larg...
YOUR WAY, i.e. your journey or design, is under the eye of God, i.e. under his care, and protection, and direction, which _the eye of God being upon a person_ commonly notes in Scripture, as PSALMS 32...
Judges 18:6 priest H3548 said H559 (H8799) Go H3212 (H8798) peace H7965 presence H5227 LORD H3068 way H1870 H3212 (H8799) Go in peace - 1 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 22:12, 1 Kings 22:15;...
‘ And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The way in which you go is before Yahweh.” ' Having used his methods of divination the priest supplied an answer. But we have already been warned by the w...
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 sanc...
_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 18:5 Considering the highly negative tone of chs. Judges 17:1 and future events in this particular narrative (Judges 18:30), it is difficult to take seriously the spies’ desire t...
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 22:12; 1 Kings 22:15; 1 Kings 22:6; 1 Thessalonians 3:11; Deuteronomy 11:12; Jeremiah 23:21; Jeremiah 23:22; Jeremiah 23:32; Psalms 33:18...
Before the Lord — That is, your design is under the eye of God; that is, under his care, protection and direction. This answer he either feigns to gratify their humour; or, did indeed receive from the...