Judges 18:10
in Judges 18When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and the land is large; for God hath given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
KJV
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
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This verse in Judges 18
Commentary
7 notes on this verseGiven - This they gather partly from God's promise which they supposed they had from the Levite's mouth; and partly from his providence, which had so disposed them, that they would be an easy prey.
This site's exposition
the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol
on Judges 18:8-10
The report runs opposite to Numbers 13:31-33, where the men who had seen a good land said it could not be taken. These five say “it is very good” and press their brothers, “Do not hesitate”. Verse 10 turns the priest's word into a promise, “God has delivered it into your hand”, the language God uses at Joshua 6:2 and 8:1, spoken here with no word from God behind it.
This site's exposition
an unsuspecting people and a spacious land
John Wesley traces the claim that God had given the land to two sources, the answer of the Levite at verse 6 and a people left open as easy prey. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown describe Laish as a fertile valley, shut away and farming in peace. Its isolation made it rich and defenceless.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
They represent the place as desirable: "If you will trust our judgments, we have seen the land, and we are agreed in our verdict upon the view, that, behold, it is very good (
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When ye go, ye shall come to a people secure, and to a large land,....
Men need to be thus stirred up to mind even their interest. Heaven is a very good land, where there is no want of any thing; our God has, by the promise, given it into our hands; let us not then be slothful in making it sure, and laying hold on eternal life, but strive to enter.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The place was very secluded--the soil rich in the abundance and variety of its produce, and the inhabitants, following the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, lived in their fertile and sequestered valley, according to the Zidonian style of ease and security, happy among themselves, and maintaining little or no communication with the rest of the world.
The words behind it
21 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כְּבֹאֲכֶ֞ם | kevoakhem | when go you | H935 → | 2568 times |
| תָּבֹ֣אוּ׀ | tavou | you will come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| עַ֣ם | ʾam | a people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| בֹּטֵ֗חַ | boteach | secure | H982 → | 120 times |
| וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙ | vehaaretz | and the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| רַחֲבַ֣ת | rachavat | [is] broad of | H7342 → | |
| יָדַ֔יִם | yadayim | both hands | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| נְתָנָ֥הּ | netanah | he has given it | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| אֱלֹהִ֖ים | ʾelohim | God | H430 → | 2601 times |
| בְּיֶדְכֶ֑ם | beyedkhem | in hand your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| מָקוֹם֙ | makom | a place | H4725 → | 401 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | where | H834 → | 5497 times |
| אֵֽין־ | ʾein- | there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| שָׁ֣ם | sham | there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| מַחְס֔וֹר | machsor | [is] lack of | H4270 → | 13 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| דָּבָ֖ר | davar | thing | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ | baaretz | [is] on the earth | H776 → | 2504 times |
כְּבֹאֲכֶ֞םwhen go you
kevoakhemH935 →2568 times
תָּבֹ֣אוּ׀you will come
tavouH935 →2568 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
עַ֣םa people
ʾamH5971 →1873 times
בֹּטֵ֗חַsecure
boteachH982 →120 times
וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙and the land
vehaaretzH776 →2504 times
רַחֲבַ֣ת[is] broad of
rachavatH7342 →
יָדַ֔יִםboth hands
yadayimH3027 →1618 times
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
נְתָנָ֥הּhe has given it
netanahH5414 →2011 times
אֱלֹהִ֖יםGod
ʾelohimH430 →2601 times
בְּיֶדְכֶ֑םin hand your
beyedkhemH3027 →1618 times
מָקוֹם֙a place
makomH4725 →401 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhere
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
אֵֽין־there not
ʾein-H369 →789 times
שָׁ֣םthere
shamH8033 →834 times
מַחְס֔וֹר[is] lack of
machsorH4270 →13 times
כָּל־any
kol-H3605 →5413 times
דָּבָ֖רthing
davarH1697 →1440 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
בָּאָֽרֶץ׃[is] on the earth
baaretzH776 →2504 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us…
it leads to
- Proverbs 11:28
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
- Acts 14:17
Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- Matthew 19:23
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
- James 1:9–10
The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
- 1 Timothy 4:10
To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
- Proverbs 11:28
Through
Judges 18:27After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
it leads to
- Joshua 19:47
(Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there,…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Judges 18:7
So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive…
- Joshua 19:47
Through
Judges 18:7So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive…
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 3:13
I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
- 1 Samuel 3:13
About Judges

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
