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IN THESE HOUSES - This agrees with what we saw at Judges 18:2 that the
“house of God” and Jonathan’s house were detached from
Micah’s. There were other houses besides Judges 18:22. The whole
settlemen...
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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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DO YE KNOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...
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The repetition of identical phrases leads us to suspect that the text
has been encumbered by glosses. To some extent, also, the confusion
may be due to the double narrative; note _the young Levite_in...
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_the country of Laish_ The Hebr. can only be rendered _the country,
Laish_. Obviously the last word is a marginal note, and it is omitted
in some mss. of the LXX
_in these houses_ Apparently Micah's...
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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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ANSWERED. — Equivalent to _they said,_ as in Job 3:2; Zechariah
1:10.
CONSIDER WHAT YE HAVE TO DO — i.e., _whether, and how, you would
possess yourselves of them._ We notice in these Danite freebooter...
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וַֽ יַּעֲנ֞וּ חֲמֵ֣שֶׁת הָ אֲנָשִׁ֗ים
הַ הֹלְ
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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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Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish,
and said unto their brethren, (f) Do ye know that there is in these
houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molte...
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_To do. Whether we must take them by force or by craft. (Haydock) ---
It seems they had a premeditated design to seize them. (Calmet)_...
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What a banditti was Israel become? Had they had zeal for God's honor,
and destroyed those molten images, oh! what a noble spirit would this
have been?...
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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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THEN THEY ANSWERED THE FIVE MEN THAT WENT TO SPY OUT THE COUNTRY OF
LAISH,.... That were sent by their brethren, Judges 18:5 and, as it
seems from hence, were sent particularly to Laish; they had some...
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Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish,
and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses
an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten im...
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_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 into it. _Then answered the five men_ That is, the...
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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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Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish,
and said unto their brethren, giving in advance the information which
the members of their tribe would presently ask for, DO YE KN...
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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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THEN ANSWERED, i.e. spake, the word _answering_ being oft used in
Scripture of the first speaker, as 1 Kings 1:28, 1 Kings 13:6 Ezra
10:2 Isaiah 14:10
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Judges 18:14 five H2568 men H582 gone H1980 (H8802) out H7270 (H8763)
country H776 Laish H3919 answered...
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‘ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of
Laish, and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in
these houses an ephod and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten
i...
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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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1 Samuel 14:28; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 8:20; Judges 17:5; Judges 18:3;...
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Answered — That is, spake, the word answering being often used in
scripture of the first speaker. These houses — That is, in one of
these houses. What to do — Whether it be not expedient to take them...