Shìshījì 18:12

12 Shàng dào Yóudà de Jīliè Yélín , zaì Jīliè Yélín hòubiān ān yíng . yīncǐ nà dìfang míng jiào mǎ hā ní dàn , zhídào jīnrì .

Shìshījì 18:12 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 18:12

And they went up and pitched in Kirjathjearim in Judah
Of which place see ( Joshua 15:9 Joshua 15:60 ) . According to Bunting ^F1 it was sixteen miles from Zorah and Eshtaol, and this was their first day's march:

wherefore they called the name of that place Mahanehdan unto this day;
which signifies the camp of Dan, or of the Danites; so it was called in the times of Samson, ( Judges 13:25 ) and is a proof that this expedition was before his time; and it was so called, it seems, in the time of Samuel, the writer of this book:

behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim;
to the west of it; for though they are said to pitch in that place, the meaning is, that they pitched near it, in the fields adjacent to it, which were the most proper and convenient for a camp.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Ut supra. (Travels of the Patriarchs p. 112.)

Shìshījì 18:12 In-Context

10 Nǐmen dào le nàli , bì kànjian ān jū wú lǜ de mín , dì yĕ kuānkuò . shén yǐ jiāng nà dì jiāo zaì nǐmen shǒu zhōng . nà dì bǎi wù jū quán , yī wú suǒ quē .

11 Yúshì dàn zú zhōng de liù bǎi rén , gè daì bīngqì , cóng Suǒlà hé Yǐshí taó qián wǎng ,

12 Shàng dào Yóudà de Jīliè Yélín , zaì Jīliè Yélín hòubiān ān yíng . yīncǐ nà dìfang míng jiào mǎ hā ní dàn , zhídào jīnrì .

13 Tāmen cóng nàli wǎng Yǐfǎlián shān dì qù , lái dào Mǐjiā de zhùzhái .

14 Cóng qián kuītàn là yì dì de wǔ gèrén duì tāmende dìxiōng shuō , zhè zhái zǐ lǐ yǒu Yǐfúdé hé jiā zhōng de shénxiàng , bìng diāokè de xiàng yǔ zhù chéng de xiàng , nǐmen zhīdào ma . xiànzaì nǐmen yào xiǎng yī xiǎng dāng zĕnyàng xíng .