Verse 28
28. Because it was far from Zidon The Zidonians were the only people likely to give them assistance at such a time of disaster, for they originally belonged to Zidon. See note on Judges 18:7.
No business with any man No alliance with nearer governments. from whom, in such case, they might have received help.
Beth-rehob Dr. Robinson is inclined to identify this place with Hunin, an ancient fortress several miles southwest of Dan, and commanding a fine prospect of the plain of the Huleh. With him agrees J.L. Porter, who says: “The site is most commanding a terrace on the steep mountain side, a thousand feet above the plain of Dan. Facing it, on the opposite range of Hermon, I saw the ruins of Caesarea Philippi. The sacred writer, in telling the story of the capture of Laish by the Danites, says it was situated in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. There was the valley before me, and yonder little rounded hill in the midst of it is the site of Laish.” It was an important stronghold, and was occupied, in the time of David, by the Syrians. 2 Samuel 10:6. It is not to be confounded with the Rehob in the tribe of Asher, further west. Judges 1:31; Joshua 19:28.
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