Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Judges 18:20
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people, where he was safe.
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people, where he was safe.
Verse Judges 18:20. _WENT TO THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE._] He was glad to be employed by the Danites; and went into the _crowd_, that he might not be discovered by Micah or his family....
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 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 Dan) between Zorah and Eshtaol, but more than one plac...
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 f...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6....
_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 THEY WENT UP, AND PITCHED IN KIRJATH-JE'ARIM, IN JUDAH: WHEREFORE THEY CALLED THAT PLACE MAHANEHDAN UNTO THIS DAY: BEHOLD, IT IS BEHIND KIRJATH-JE'ARIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
THE PRIEST’S HEART WAS GLAD. — Judges 19:6; Judges 19:9; Ruth 3:7. The disgraceful alacrity with which he sanctions the theft, and abandons for self-interest the cause of Micah, is very unworthy of a...
וַ יִּיטַב֙ לֵ֣ב הַ כֹּהֵ֔ן וַ יִּקַּח֙
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...
Encouraged by the report of the spies, 600 men of Dan set off with weapons to attack the city. When they came to mount Ephraim, the spies told them about the house of God with the image and priest. Th...
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the (h) people. (h) With the six hundred men....
It is impossible sufficiently to detest the character of this time-serving Levite. But indeed, how shall he be just to man that is unfaithful to God. And that all this base and perfidious conduct was...
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'S HEART WAS GLAD,.... He rejoiced that such an opportunity offered; it suited well with his covetous, ambitious, rambling, and unsettled disposition of mind: AND HE TOOK THE EPHOD, AND...
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. Ver. 20. And the priest's heart was glad.] Every wind can raise a...
_The priest's heart was glad_ As he was promised promotion, he not only consented to the fact, but assisted them in it, being wholly governed by a regard to his own secular interest. _He went in the m...
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....
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 large...
THE PRIEST'S HEART WAS GLAD; being wholly governed by his own interest, and making all his obligations of justice and gratitude give place to it. But it is not strange, if he who was before perfidious...
Judges 18:20 priests H3548 heart H3820 glad H3190 (H8799) took H3947 (H8799) ephod H646 idols H8655 image...
‘ And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image and went in the midst of the people.' The priest did not go because he was forced or because he had no...
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 sanct...
_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 18:14 EPHOD, HOUSEHOLD GODS, A CARVED IMAGE, AND A METAL IMAGE (v. Judges 18:14). Rather than condemning Micah’s collection of pagan religious
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...
2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:3; Acts 20:33; Ezekiel 13:19;...
Was glad — Being wholly governed by his own interest. The midst — Both for the greater security of such precious things, and that Micah might not be able to come at him, to injure or upbraid him; and,...