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Judges 18 — Sermon Preparation

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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preachers & commentators

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.

Matthew Henry 1 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“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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