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 Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them, "How did it go?"

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

His brothers and all his family went down and brought him back. They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.

Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!"

Their assigned land included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,

To spy

When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country

Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: "Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho." They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.

Plans are established by counsel, so make war with guidance.

Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Mount

There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Joshua replied to them, "Since you have so many people, go up into the forest and clear out a place to live in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites, for the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you."

General references

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