Judges 18:26

And the children of Dan went their way; and Michaias saw that they were stronger than himself, and he returned to his house.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

In Context

25And the children of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard with us, lest angry men run upon thee, and + 18:25 Lit. add. q. d. to the deeds already done.take away thy life, and the lives of thy house.

27And the children of Dan took what Michaias had made, and the priest that he had, and they came to Laisa, to a people quiet and secure; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:16Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel.

Matthew Henry on Judges 18:15-27

Micah's Gods Stolen; Micah's Attempt to Recover His Idols. ( b. c. 1406.) 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do. 15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war,… Read the whole commentary →

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