The Amorites. — They were the Highlanders of Palestine (Joshua 10:6; Numbers 13:29; Deuteronomy 1:44).
Forced. — Literally “squeezed” or “pressed.”
Forced the children of Dan into the mountain. — The condition of this tribe was, therefore, the worst of all. So far from reducing under tribute the Canaanites of its assigned possession, as the central tribes did, the Danites did not even succeed in establishing a tolerated neutrality among them, like the northern tribes, but were driven into a few mountain-strongholds. It was probably this failure, and the consequent pressure of space under which the tribe laboured, which induced them to undertake the successful northern expedition alluded to in Joshua 19:47 and described in Judges 18