The Scouts at Laish. Laish was at the source of the Jordan, being either the modern Tell el Kâ di or Banias (p. 32). Zidonians stands here for Phœ nicians (cf. Judges 10:12). These were a quiet, industrious trading people, and the men of Laish were after their manner, being, indeed perhaps a Phœ nician settlement They were the kind of people for whom the Danite scouts were looking a people easy to conquer! The moral question as to the right of overpowering and disinheriting a quiet and secure peasantry was never raised. At the Bedouin stage of culture, might is right.
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Judges 18:8-10
8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.