Gen 14:14, Deu 34:1, Judg 18:29-31, 20:1, 2Ki 10:29, Jer 8:16, Amo 8:14 | TSK | STEP | his brother. armed. or, led forth. trained. or, instructed. born. Dan.

Ge 30:6; 32:28Laish, or Dan, was situated at the northern extremity of the land of Canaan, in a beautiful and fertile plain, at the foot of mount Lebanon, on the springs of Jordan, and, according to Eusebius, four miles from Cæsarea Philippi, or Paneas, now Banias, (with which some have confounded it,) towards Tyre. Burckhardt says, that the source of the river El Dhan, or Jordan, is at an hour's distance from Banias, which agrees with Eusebius.

set up.

Ex 20:4; Le 26:1; De 17:2-7; 27:15; 31:16,29; Jos 19:40-48

Ps 78:58-61God had graciously performed his promise, in putting these Danites in possession of that which fell to their lot, obliging them thereby to be faithful to him who had been so to them; they inherited the labour of the people, that they might observe his statues. Ps 105:44, 45. But the first thing they do after they are settled is to break his laws, by setting up the graven image, attributing their success to that idol, which, if God had not been infinitely patient, would have been their ruin. Thus a prosperous idolater goes on to offend, imputing this his power unto his God. Instead of Manasseh, some would read Moses; as it is found in some MSS., in the Vulgate and in the concessions of the most intelligent Jews. But Bp. Patrick takes this to be an idle conceit of the Rabbins, and supposes this Jonathan to be of some other family of the Levites. Yet Kimchi acknowledges, that the Jews, deeply concerned for the honour of their lawgiver, to whom they thought it would be a great dishonour to have a grandson who was an idolater, suspended the letter, [Nûwn,] {noon,} over the word [Môsheh "] Moses, thus [Menashsheh ,] as it is found in the Hebrew Bibles; which, by means of the points, they have changed into Manasseh.

until.

13:1; 1Sa 4:2,3,10,11; Ps 78:60-62

the land.Houbigant contends, that, instead of {haäretz,} "the land," we should read {haäron,} "the ark;" for the [Vâv,] {wav,} and [Nûwn, {noon final,} might easily be mistaken for [Tsâdêy,] {tzadday final;} which is the only difference between the two words. This conjecture is the more likely, as the next verse tells us, that Micah's graven image continued at Dan "all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh;" which was till the ark was taken by the Philistines.

all the time.

19:18; 21:21; Jos 18:1; 1Sa 1:3; 4:4; Jer 7:12

Judges 20:1

1 The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong.

8 The decree of the assembly.

12 The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites.

18 The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand.

26 They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except six hundred.

Then all.

2,8,11; 21:5; De 13:12-18; Jos 22:12

as one man.

1Sa 11:7,8; 2Sa 19:14; Ezr 3:1; Ne 8:1

from Dan.

18:29; 1Sa 3:20; 2Sa 3:10; 24:2; 1Ch 21:2; 2Ch 30:5

with the.

Nu 32:1,40; Jos 17:1; 2Sa 2:9

unto the.

18,26; 11:11

in Mizpeh.

10:17; 11:11; Jos 15:38; 18:26; 1Sa 7:5,6; 10:17; 2Ki 25:23It does not appear that the Israelites on this occasion, were summoned by the authority of any one common head, but they came together by the consent and agreement, as it were, of one common heart, fired with a holy zeal for the honour of God and Israel. The place of their meeting was Mizpeh; they gathered together unto the Lord there; for Mizpeh was so very near to Shiloh, that their encampment might very well be supposed to reach from Mizpeh to Shiloh. Shiloh was a small town, and therefore, when there was a general meeting of the people to present themselves before God, they chose Mizpeh for their head quarters, which was the next adjoining city of note; perhaps, because they were not willing to give that trouble to Shiloh, which so great an assembly would occasion; it being the residence of the priests that attended the tabernacle.

2 Kings 10:29

A.M. 3120-3148. B.C. 884-856. the sins.

13:2,11; 14:24; 15:9,18,24,28; 17:22; 1Ki 12:28-30; 13:33,34; 14:16

made Israel.

Ge 20:9; Ex 32:21; 1Sa 2:24; Mr 6:24-26; 1Co 8:9-13; Ga 2:12,13

the golden calves.

Ex 32:4; Ho 8:5,6; 10:5; 13:2

in Beth-el.

1Ki 12:29

Jeremiah 8:16

The snorting.Grotius observes, after Jerome, that Nebuchadnezzar, having subdued Phoenicia, passed through Dan, in his way to Jerusalem.

was heard.

4:15,16; Jud 18:29; 20:1

the whole.

4:24; Hab 3:10

at the.

6:23; 47:3; Jud 5:22; Na 1:4,5; 3:2

of his strong ones. Of his war-horses.This is a fine image; so terrible was the united neighings of the cavalry of the Babylonians, that the reverberation of the air caused the ground to tremble.

all that is in it. Heb. the fulness thereof.

Ps 24:1; 1Co 10:26,28

Amos 8:14

swear.

Ho 4:15; Zep 1:5

sin.

De 9:21; 1Ki 12:28,29,32; 13:22-34; 14:16; 16:24; 2Ki 10:29

Ho 8:5,6; 10:5; 13:2,16

manner. Heb. way.

Ac 9:2; 18:25; 19:9,23; 24:14

Beer-sheba. See on ver.

shall fall.

De 33:11; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 36:12; 140:10; Pr 29:1; Isa 43:17

Jer 25:27; 51:64