Judges 18:26

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

BSB

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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Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Let not thy voice be heard

on Judges 18:25-26

The threat is put as advice, and angry fellows renders a Hebrew phrase meaning bitter of soul, the same 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, and he turned and went back to his house.

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.

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning	Word study	In the Bible
וַיֵּלְכ֥וּ	vaiyelekhu	and they went	H1980 →	1546 times
בְנֵי־	venei-	[the] descendants of	H1121 →	4930 times
דָ֖ן	dan	Dan	H1835 →	70 times
לְדַרְכָּ֑ם	ledarkam	to way their	H1870 →	707 times
וַיַּ֣רְא	vaiyar'	and he saw	H7200 →	1300 times
מִיכָ֗ה	mikhah	Micah	H4318 →	33 times
כִּי־	ki-	that	H3588 →	4482 times
חֲזָקִ֥ים	chazakim	[were too] strong	H2389 →
הֵ֙מָּה֙	hemah	they	H1992 →	553 times
מִמֶּ֔נּוּ	mimenu	for him	H4480 →	1188 times
וַיִּ֖פֶן	vaiyifen	and he turned	H6437 →	135 times
וַיָּ֥שָׁב	vaiyashov	and he returned	H7725 →	1056 times
אֶל־	ʾel-	to	H413 →	5510 times
בֵּיתֽוֹ׃	beito	house his	H1004 →	2046 times