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Verse Judges 18:5. _ASK COUNSEL - OF GOD_] As the Danites use the
word אלהים _Elohim_ here for _God_, we are necessarily led to
believe that they meant the true God; especially as the Levite
answers,...
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The sight of the ephod and teraphim suggested the notion of inquiring
of God....
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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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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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THE DANITE SCOUTS AT THE HOUSE OF MICAH. This chapter is of great
value as an illustration of the mode in which an Israelitish tribe
found a settlement in the country. We are taken back almost to the...
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ASK COUNSEL. By the use of the ephod. See Judges 17:6.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. Not Jehovah. App-4....
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_Ask counsel … of God_ i.e. by means of the ephod or sacred lot. To
consult the divine will in this way was one of the special functions
of the priesthood; see 1 Samuel 6:2; 1 Samuel 14:18 (RVm.), 1 S...
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THEY SAID UNTO HIM, ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD— These two
verses prove, what we have before observed on the 5th verse of the
foregoing chapter, that this sanctuary of Micah was dedicated to the...
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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 THE CHILDREN OF DAN SENT OF THEIR FAMILY FIVE MEN FROM THEIR
COASTS, MEN OF VALOUR, FROM ZORAH, AND FROM ESHTAOL, TO SPY OUT THE
LAND, AND TO SEARCH IT; AND THEY SAID UNTO THEM, GO, SEARCH THE LA...
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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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ASK COUNSEL... OF GOD. — Doubtless Jonathan showed them the
glittering ephod. There were no prophets of whom to inquire, as in 1
Kings 22:5; but their unauthorised inquiry was liable to the strong
cen...
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וַ יֹּ֥אמְרוּ לֹ֖ו שְׁאַל ־נָ֣א בֵ
אלֹהִ֑ים
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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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At the last census, Dan had numbered 64,400 males of 20 years old
upward and the land alotted to them would have been sufficient had the
Amorites not forced them into the mountains (see Numbers 26:42-...
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_Lord ( Elohim.) A title sometimes given to false gods. The Levite
answered in the name of Jehova; whence it is inferred that they all
adored the true God, though their worship was not clear of
supers...
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And still advancing in iniquity, instead of recommending them to the
God of their fathers, to give them the pretended oracle of a god of
silver! Was there no God in Israel, that they should enquire of...
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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 THEY SAID UNTO HIM, ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD,.... They
did not reprove him for assuming the priestly office, when they knew
he was a Levite, such was the corruption of those times, and th...
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And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may
know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Ver. 5. _Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God._] _Videntur non minus
leves fu...
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_They lodged there_ Not in the same house, but near it. _They knew the
voice of the young man_ Having been acquainted with him before he came
to live with Micah. _Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God_ By...
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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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And they, also so weak in their religious convictions and knowledge
that they found no fault with the man for his action, SAID UNTO HIM,
ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD, THAT WE MAY KNOW WHETHER OUR...
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THE DANITES SEEK A NEW LOCATION...
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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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ASK COUNSEL, WE PRAY THEE, OF GOD, to wit, by thine ephod, or
teraphim, or images, which they knew he had, JUDGES 18:14....
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‘ And they said to him, “Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we
may know whether our way in which we go will be prosperous.” '
When they heard what his position was they asked him to make enquiry
o...
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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 18:5 Considering the highly negative tone of
chs. Judges 17:1 and future events in this particular narrative ...
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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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1 Kings 22:5; 2 Kings 16:15; Acts 8:10; Ezekiel 21:21; Hosea 4:12;...
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Ask — By thine Ephod, and Teraphim, or images, which they knew he
had, Judges 18:14....