11 Then six hundred men of the Danites, armed for battle, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed
11 So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol,
11 So 600 Danite men set out from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed to the teeth.
11 And six hundred men of the family of the Danites went from there, from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
11 So 600Â men from the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
12 and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan
12 Along the way they made camp at Kiriath Jearim in Judah. That is why the place is still today called Dan's Camp - it's just west of Kiriath Jearim.
12 Then they went up and encamped in Kirjath Jearim in Judah. (Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. There it is, west of Kirjath Jearim.)
12 They camped at a place west of Kiriath-jearim in Judah, which is called Mahaneh-dan to this day.
The Danites seek to enlarge their inheritance, and rob Micah.
The Danites determined to take Micah's gods with them. Oh the folly of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods should protect them, that could not keep themselves from being stolen! To take them for their own use, was a double crime; it showed they neither feared God, nor regarded man, but were lost both to godliness and honesty. What a folly was it for Micah to call those his gods, which he had made, when He only is to be worshipped by us as God, that made us! That is put in God's place, which we are concerned about, as if our all were bound up in it. If people will walk in the name of their false gods, much more should we love and serve the true God!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 18:11
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The Danites seek to enlarge their inheritance, and rob Micah.
The Danites determined to take Micah's gods with them. Oh the folly of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods should protect them, that could not keep themselves from being stolen! To take them for their own use, was a double crime; it showed they neither feared God, nor regarded man, but were lost both to godliness and honesty. What a folly was it for Micah to call those his gods, which he had made, when He only is to be worshipped by us as God, that made us! That is put in God's place, which we are concerned about, as if our all were bound up in it. If people will walk in the name of their false gods, much more should we love and serve the true God!