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Selected Verse: Judges 18:11 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jud 18:11 |
Strong Concordance |
And there went [05265] from thence of the family [04940] of the Danites [01839], out of Zorah [06881] and out of Eshtaol [0847], six [08337] hundred [03967] men [0376] appointed [02296] with weapons [03627] of war [04421]. |
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King James |
And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
there went from thence of the family of the Danites . . . six hundred men--This was the collective number of the men who were equipped with arms to carry out this expeditionary enterprise, without including the families and furniture of the emigrants (Jdg 18:21). Their journey led them through the territory of Judah, and their first halting place was "behind," that is, on the west of Kirjath-jearim, on a spot called afterwards "the camp of Dan." Prosecuting the northern route, they skirted the base of the Ephraimite hills. On approaching the neighborhood of Micah's residence, the spies having given information that a private sanctuary was kept there, the priest of which had rendered them important service when on their exploring expedition, it was unanimously agreed that both he and the furniture of the establishment would be a valuable acquisition to their proposed settlement. A plan of spoliation was immediately formed. While the armed men stood sentinels at the gates, the five spies broke into the chapel, pillaged the images and vestments, and succeeded in bribing the priest also by a tempting offer to transfer his services to their new colony. Taking charge of the ephod, the teraphim, and the graven image, he "went in the midst of the people"--a central position assigned him in the march, perhaps for his personal security; but more probably in imitation of the place appointed for the priests and the ark, in the middle of the congregated tribes, on the marches through the wilderness. This theft presents a curious medley of low morality and strong religious feeling. The Danites exemplified a deep-seated principle of our nature--that men have religious affections, which must have an object on which these may be exercised, while they are often not very discriminating in the choice of the objects. In proportion to the slender influence religion wields over the heart, the greater is the importance attached to external rites; and in the exact observance of these, the conscience is fully satisfied, and seldom or never molested by reflections on the breach of minor morals. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Removal of Six Hundred Danites to Laish - Robbery of Micah's Images - Conquest of Laish, and Settlement There. - Jdg 18:11, Jdg 18:12. In consequence of the favourable account of the spies who returned, certain Danites departed from Zorea and Eshtaol, to the number of 600 men, accoutred with weapons of war, with their families and their possessions in cattle and goods (see Jdg 18:21), and encamped by the way at Kirjath-jearim (i.e., Kuriyet Enab; see Jos 9:17), in the tribe territory of Judah, at a place which received the permanent name of Mahaneh Dan (camp of Dan) from that circumstance, and was situated behind, i.e., to the west of, Kirjath-jearim (see at Jdg 13:25). The fact that this locality received a standing name from the circumstance described, compels us to assume that the Danites had encamped there for a considerable time, for reasons which we cannot determine from our want of other information. The emigrants may possibly have first of all assembled here, and prepared and equipped themselves for their further march. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Six hundred men - These were not the whole, for we find they had children, etc., Jdg 18:21; but these appear to have been six hundred armed men. |
21 So they turned [06437] and departed [03212], and put [07760] the little ones [02945] and the cattle [04735] and the carriage [03520] before [06440] them.
25 And the Spirit [07307] of the LORD [03068] began [02490] to move him at times [06470] in the camp [04264] of Dan [01835] between Zorah [06881] and Eshtaol [0847].
17 And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] journeyed [05265], and came [0935] unto their cities [05892] on the third [07992] day [03117]. Now their cities [05892] were Gibeon [01391], and Chephirah [03716], and Beeroth [0881], and Kirjathjearim [07157].
21 So they turned [06437] and departed [03212], and put [07760] the little ones [02945] and the cattle [04735] and the carriage [03520] before [06440] them.
12 And they went up [05927], and pitched [02583] in Kirjathjearim [07157], in Judah [03063]: wherefore they called [07121] that place [04725] Mahanehdan [04265] unto this day [03117]: behold, it is behind [0310] Kirjathjearim [07157].
11 And there went [05265] from thence of the family [04940] of the Danites [01839], out of Zorah [06881] and out of Eshtaol [0847], six [08337] hundred [03967] men [0376] appointed [02296] with weapons [03627] of war [04421].
21 So they turned [06437] and departed [03212], and put [07760] the little ones [02945] and the cattle [04735] and the carriage [03520] before [06440] them.