Judges 18:30-31

30 The sons of Dan set up for themselves ¹the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of ²Gershom, the son of Manasseh, ³he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

31 So they set up for themselves Micah's graven image which he had made, all the time that the ⁴house of God was at Shiloh.

Judges 18:30-31 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. Judges 17:3, 5
• 2. Exodus 2:22; Exodus 18:3
• 3. Judges 17:3, 5
• 4. Joshua 18:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Some ancient versions read "Moses"