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.
Study Helps
Interpretation
This verse continues the thought already in view and fits the wider themes of apostasy and deliverance in Judges.
Glossary
- Eshtaol Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Khirbet Deir Shubeib.
- Micah Person
- A shortened form of Micaiah, who is like Jehovah? (1. ) A man of Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in Judg.
- Zorah Place
- Place of wasps, a town in the low country of Judah, afterwards given to Dan ( Josh. 19:41 ; Judg. 18:2 ), probably the same as Zoreah ( Josh. 15:33 ). This was Samson’s birthplace. Modern identification: Tel Tzora.