Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Judges
Book: Judges
Chapter: 18
Overview:
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!