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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:10

When ye go, ye shall come to a people secure, and to a large land ,.... For though it was but one city, the territories of it were large, and the villages belonging to it might be many; which, with the security of the people, might easily be surprised and taken, not being upon their guard, are the arguments used by the spies to encourage their countrymen to go up and take it, to which they add others: for God hath given it into your hands ; which they concluded from the state and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:11

And there went from thence of the family of the Danites ,.... Or families, the singular being put for the plural; for it can hardly be thought that such a number of men, as after mentioned, went out of one family: out of Zorah, and out of Eshtaol ; the two places the spies were sent from, and now had returned unto: and upon their report, and at their instigation, and by the encouragement they gave, there were six hundred men appointed with weapons of war ; that set out armed from the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:12

And they went up and pitched in Kirjathjearim in Judah ,.... Of which place see Joshua 15:9 . According to Bunting F1 Ut supra. (Travels of the Patriarchs, &c.; p. 112.) it was sixteen miles from Zorah and Eshtaol, and this was their first day's march: wherefore they called the name of that place Mahanehdan unto this day ; which signifies the camp of Dan, or of the Danites; so it was called in the times of Samson, Judges 13:25 and is a proof that this expedition was before... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:13

And they passed thence unto Mount Ephraim ,.... Steering their coast still northward; this, according to Bunting F2 Ibid. (Travels of the Patriarchs, &c.; p. 112.) , was eight miles from Kirjathjearim, or Mahanehdan, in which Micah's house was, for as yet they were not come to it, see Judges 18:15 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:14

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 notion of that place as proper for them, and therefore sent those men to reconnoitre it; and now as they had passed this way before, when they came within sight of Micah's house, it put them in mind of what they had seen there; wherefore one in the name of the rest, and with their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:15

And they turned thitherward ,.... It seems as if the house lay a little out of their way, and therefore they turned on one hand to go unto it: and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah ; for the young man's house was only an apartment of Micah's, and lay very probably next to that in which the images, and oracle were; and they made up to the young man's apartment, rather than to Micah's, because the above things were under his care: and saluted... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 18:3

They knew the voice of the young man - They knew, by his dialect or mode of pronunciation, that he was not an Ephraimite. We have already seen ( Judges 12:6 ; (note)) that the Ephraimites could not pronounce certain letters. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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, Judges 18:6 , Before the Lord ( יהוה Yehovah ) is your way. Though the former word may be sometimes applied to idols, whom their votaries clothed with the attributes of God; yet the latter is never applied but to the true God alone. As the Danites succeeded according to the oracle delivered by the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 18:7

After the manner of the Zidonians - Probably the people of Laish or Leshem were originally a colony of the Sidonians, who, it appears, were an opulent people; and, being in possession of a strong city, lived in a state of security, not being afraid of their neighbors. In this the Leshemites imitated them, though the sequel proves they had not the same reason for their confidence. They were far from the Zidonians - Being, as above supposed, a Sidonian colony, they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 18:9

Arise , etc. - This is a very plain and nervous address; full of good sense, and well adapted to the purpose. It seems to have produced an instantaneous effect. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 18:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 18:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 18:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 18:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 18:9

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