Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 18:9

"And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land." — Judges 18:9 (ASV)

Behold, it is very good. —Compare Numbers 14:7; Joshua 2:23–24. The beauty of the site well bears out the description—“the rich and beautiful seclusion of that loveliest of the scenes of Palestine” (Stanley). It was by a similar statement that Anaxilaus of Rhegium persuaded the Messenians to seize Zankle (Pausan. 4:23, quoted by Cassel).

Are you still? —1 Kings 22:3; 2 Kings 7:9.