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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....
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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
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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...
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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...
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AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6....
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_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...
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_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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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וַ יִּיטַב֙ לֵ֣ב הַ כֹּהֵ֔ן וַ
יִּקַּח֙
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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THE PRIEST OF MICAH TAKEN TO LAISH...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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‘ 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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:3; Acts 20:33; Ezekiel 13:19;...
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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,...