Judges 18:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

Zorah

Joshua 19:41

To spy

Mount

Judges 17:1

Judges 19:1

Joshua 17:15

General references

Genesis 49:16

Bible References

Zorah

When the men went back to their clans at Zorah and Eshtaol, their people asked them, “What did you find out?”

There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoah; his wife was unable to conceive and had no children.

Then his brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. So he judged Israel 20 years.

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said to them, “You are spies. You have come to see the weakness of the land.”

The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

To spy

When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up this way to the Negev, then go up into the hill country.

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from the Acacia Grove, saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a woman, a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there.

Finalize plans with counsel,
and wage war with sound guidance.

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000?

Mount

There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite living in a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim acquired a woman from Bethlehem in Judah as his concubine.

“If you have so many people,” Joshua replied to them, “go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.”

General references

Dan will judge his people
as one of the tribes of Israel.