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They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
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A Deceptive Greeting
Commentators explain that the Danites' friendly greeting was a calculated deception. Their goal was not to wish the Levite well, but, as one scholar puts it, to "ingratiate themselves to him" and distract him. This was a strategic move to enable the other men to slip away and steal the idols, showing how sin often begins with disingenuous words.
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19th Century
Anglican
In these verses, we have a graphic description of the whole wicked activity. The five spies, knowing Jonathan, greet him and lure him to the entran…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they turned thitherward It seems as if the house lay a little out of their way, and therefore they turned on one…
Presbyterian
The Danites determined to take Micah's gods with them. Oh, the folly of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods would protect them, when t…
