Joshua 24:30; Joshua 24:33; Judges 17:1; Judges 18:2; Judges 18:3; Judges 19:1
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...
The Danites Get Possession of a Sacred Image. Kiriath-jearim (the city of forests) is perhaps Kuriat el -' enab. There was a Mahaneh-dan (camp of D...
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
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 Kirja...
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 Dani...
Unto the house of Micah. — Probably the precincts of the new sanctuary gave their name to a sort of village — Beth-Micah.
THE STOLEN GODS Judges 17:1-13 , Judges 18:1-31 THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth chapter and extends to the...
The account of the backsliding of individuals is followed by an illustration of its widespread existence among the people. While seeking new territor...
Though they seemed to be in earnest in their intended conquest of Laish, yet we see how slow they moved, that even a second day's march only brought...
And they passed thence unto Mount Ephraim ,.... Steering their coast still northward; this, according to Bunting b, was eight miles from Kirjathjear...
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah. Ver. 13. And came unto the house of Micah. ] Whom the five spies il...
Mahaneh-dan That is, the camp of Dan. They came unto the house of Micah That is, to the town in which his house was, for they had not yet entered...
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 th...
7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zid...
i.e. To the town in which his house was, for they were not yet entered into it.
‘ And they passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.' Coming to the house of Micah was no doubt by delibe...
THE IMAGE WORSHIP EXPANDING INTO TRIBAL IDOLATRY HOMILETICS I. The straits to which unbelief reduces the strong. Judges 18:1 . “The tribe of...
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 Go...
The Danites sought them an inheritance . .. They set them up Micah’s graven image. The image-worship expanding into tribal idolatry I. The s...
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 m...
And they passed thence unto Mount Ephraim, along the way taken by the spies, and came unto the house of Micah.
The Priest of Micah Taken to Laish
To the house — That is, to the town in which his house was, for they were not yet entered into it.
13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.