Judges 18:26-29

26 So the Danites went their way, and Micah, seeing that they were too strong for him, turned around and went back home.

27 Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city.

28 There was no one to rescue them because they lived a long way from Sidon and had no relationship with anyone else. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there.

29 They named it Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city used to be called Laish.

Judges 18:26-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 18

This chapter relates how the Danites, being overcrowed in their inheritance, sent out spies to search the land, and see if they could find any proper place to add unto it, and enlarge it, Jud 18:1-6 who returned and reported Laish as such, and encouraged the Danites to go and possess it; for which purpose they sent six hundred men up to it, Jud 18:7-12 and as they went, called at the house of Micah, and took away his priests and his gods, Jud 18:13-27 and having taken Laish, set up Micah's graven image there, Jud 18:28-31.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Samuel 3:39; Psalms 18:17; Psalms 35:10
• 2. ver 7,10; S Genesis 34:25
• 3. S Numbers 31:10
• 4. Genesis 49:17; S Joshua 19:47
• 5. S ver 7; S Genesis 10:19
• 6. S Numbers 13:21; 2 Samuel 10:6
• 7. S Genesis 14:14
• 8. S Joshua 19:47; 1 Kings 15:20