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5 So they said to him, “Please ainquire of bGod, that we may know whether the journey on which we go will be prosperous.”  
6 And the priest said to them, a“Go in peace. The presence of the Lord be with you on your way.”  
7 So the five men departed and went to aLaish. They saw the people who were there, bhow they dwelt safely, in the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure. There were no rulers in the land who might put them to shame for anything. They were far from the cSidonians, and they had no ties with anyone.  
8 Then the spies came back to their brethren at aZorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren said to them, “What is your report?”  
9 So they said, a“Arise, let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and indeed it is very good. Would you bdo nothing? Do not hesitate to go, and enter to possess the land.  
10 When you go, you will come to a asecure people and a large land. For God has given it into your hands, ba place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.”  
11 And six hundred men of the family of the Danites went from there, from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
12 Then they went up and encamped in aKirjath Jearim in Judah. (Therefore they call that place bMahaneh Dan to this day. There it is, west of Kirjath Jearim.)  
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Judges 18:7

Laish - Afterward called "Dan" Judges 18:29. The exact site has not been identified, but it was the northern extremity of Israel, near the sources of the Jordan, and about four miles from Panium, or Caesarea-Philippi. It is thought to have stood where the village Tell-el-Kadi now stands.

After the manner of the Zidonians - The genius of the Zidonians being mechanical and commercial, not military, their colonists were apt to neglect fortifications and similar warlike precautions. In Solomon' s time the Zidonians were especially skillful in hewing timber I Kings 5:6; I Chronicles 22:4, and it is highly probable, from their proximity to Lebanon, that such was the occupation of the men of Laish.

Quiet and secure ... - This is a very obscure and difficult passage. Translate thus: "Quiet and secure, and none of them doing any injury in the land, possessing wealth," or "dominion."




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 18:7:

Proverbs 3:27-35
Isaiah 10:30
Ezekiel 38:8
Zechariah 9:2

 

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