And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
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Gill's Exposition
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain,.... Into the mountainous part of the tribe of Dan; the most noted mountains in it were Sear and Baalah, which lay on the border of Judah,…
Barnes' Notes
The Amorites are usually found in the mountain Num 13:29; Jos 10:6. Here they dwell in the valley, of which the monuments of Rameses III show them to have been in possession when that monarch invaded…
We are here told upon what terms the rest of the tribes stood with the Canaanites that remained.
I. Benjamin neglected to drive the Jebusites out of that part of the city of Jerusalem which fell to…
The fortunes of Dan
34 .Dan, we may infer, attempted to settle in the N.W. corner of Judah, on the rich land (-the valley") between the hills and the coast. But the native population forced them back…