Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
In those days there was no king in Israel,.... No supreme magistrate, no judge, for it was before the time of the judges, after the death of Joshua and before Othniel the first judge; this is observed…
Here is, 1. The eye which these Danites had upon Laish, not the whole tribe of Dan, but one family of them, to whose lot, in the subdivision of Canaan, that city fell. Hitherto this family had…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Jdg 18:1. In those days … in Israel An excuse for the irregularity of Micah's proceedings as described in the foregoing verses. See Jdg 17:6 n.
and in those days … to dwell in At first the Danites…
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