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Judges 18 — Sermon Preparation
The tribe of Dan, seeking territory, steals Micah's idol and priest, conquers the city of Laish, renames it Dan, and installs the idol there. Below is a research summary for Judges 18, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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Judges 18 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִיכָה | Mîykâh | H4318 | 12 | Micah |
| דָּן | Dân | H1835 | 9 | Dan |
| כֹּהֵן | kôhên | H3548 | 11 | officiating, priest |
| יָלַךְ | yâlak | H3212 | 9 | walk, carry |
| פֶּסֶל | peçel | H6459 | 5 | idol |
| לַיִשׁ | Layish | H3919 | 4 | Laish |
| תְּרָפִים | tᵉrâphîym | H8655 | 4 | Teraphim |
How preachers through history handled this text
3 public-domain excerpts on Judges 18, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“XVIII The Danish spies call at Micah's house, ver. 1-6. The report they bring back, ver. 7-10. The Danites send forces, who by the way plunder Micah of his gods, ver. 11-26. They take Laish and set up idolatry there, ver. 27-31. 1. Those days - Not long after Joshua's death. The tribe - A part of that tribe, consisting only of six hundred men of war, with their families, ver. 16, 21. Inheritance - The lot had fallen to them before this time, but not the actual possession, because the Philistines and Amorites opposed them. 2. …”
— John Wesley, Wesley's Notes on the Whole Bible, on Judges 18:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Eshtaol— Judg 18:11
- Zorah— Judg 18:11
- Kiriath-jearim— Judg 18:12
- Mahaneh-dan 2— Judg 18:12
- Dan— Judg 18:14
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