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Judges 18:26

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So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

KJV

And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

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This verse in Judges 18

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Do not raise your voice against us

on Judges 18:25-26

The threat is put as advice, and “angry men” renders a Hebrew phrase meaning bitter of soul, the description given of the men who gathered to David at 1 Samuel 22:2. Clarke sets the exchange beside a highwayman's demand, since Micah is offered a choice between his goods and the lives of his household. Verse 26 closes it without comment, because Micah “saw that they were too strong for him”.

This site's exposition

Micah turned to go back home

Micah goes home without his priest, the gods he made or the blessing he counted on at 17:13. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown picture him leading a sizeable band, still too small for six hundred. The chapter leaves him there.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. 28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob.

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And the children of Dan went their way,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together--The robbers of the chapel being soon detected, a hot pursuit was forthwith commenced by Micah, at the head of a considerable body of followers.

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The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיֵּלְכ֥וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • בְנֵי־[the] descendants of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • דָ֖ןDan

    danH1835 →70 times

  • לְדַרְכָּ֑םto way their

    ledarkamH1870 →707 times

  • וַיַּ֣רְאand he saw

    vaiyar'H7200 →1300 times

  • מִיכָ֗הMicah

    mikhahH4318 →33 times

  • כִּי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • חֲזָקִ֥ים[were too] strong

    chazakimH2389 →

  • הֵ֙מָּה֙they

    hemahH1992 →553 times

  • מִמֶּ֔נּוּfor him

    mimenuH4480 →1188 times

  • וַיִּ֖פֶןand he turned

    vaiyifenH6437 →135 times

  • וַיָּ֥שָׁבand he returned

    vaiyashovH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בֵּיתֽוֹ׃house his

    beitoH1004 →2046 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Judges

Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 18 →

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

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