Proverbs 4:7
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all they getting get understanding.”
Judges 1:34-36
34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: 35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries. 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all they getting get understanding.”
Judges 1:34-36
34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: 35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries. 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
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Dan-(A Judge)-This is the part of us that makes judgement calls, governs and pleads causes. It works closely with instinct and your mind to move in a certain direction.
This is the part of you that works with your logic or your spirit to strike whilst the iron is hot.
This is your wisdom center that God wants to sharpen for His glory.
This is the part of us that knows how to use knowledge with wisdom.
Proverbs 4:7 “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all they getting get understanding.”
Patience teaches us how to mature in this area.
Summary: The debased Amorites were a gangrenous limb of the human race.
After bearing with them for hundreds of years, God decided that the only solution was amputation. The Israelite tribe of Dan failed to exterminate the pagan inhabitants of their lot.
The debased Amorites were a gangrenous limb of the human race. After bearing with them for hundreds of years, God decided that the only solution was amputation.
In Dan’s lot He committed the surgery to that tribe. But they failed to obey Him.
Here, the name Amorite is synonymous with name Canaanite.
The term appears in Assyrian documents as a designation of people from the west (of Mesopotamia). Finally, the chapter ends with the tragic statement that the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain (hill country) and would not even allow them to come down into the valley; probably that is where the chariots of iron were.
Thus, the Danites were driven into the hills for protection and safety, and they rarely made excursions from them. (The enemy always attempts to entrap us and isolate us.)
This brings to mind how the ancient Britons were driven into the mountains of Wales by the Romans; and the native Indians driven back into the woods by the British settlers in America.
Eventually, the Danites were unable to control any of their territory and were forced to migrate far to the north (ch. 18).
It is also interesting to note that Samson, the strongest man, came from Dan, the weakest tribe!
The fifth son of Jacob, and the first of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid. Dan records are unusually meager. Only one son is attributed to him, Gen. 46:23; but his tribe was, with the exception of Judah, the most numerous of all.
In the division of the promised land Dan was the last of the tribes to receive his portion, which was the smallest of the twelve.
Joshua. 19:47-48. But notwithstanding its smallness it had eminent natural advantages. 47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
On the north and east it was completely embraced by its two brother tribes Ephraim and Benjamin, while on the southeast and south it joined Judah, and was thus surrounded by the three most powerful states of the whole confederacy.
It was a rich and fertile district; but the Amorites soon “forced them into the mountain,” Judges 1:34, and they had another portion granted them.
Judges 18. In the “security” and “quiet,” Judges 18:7, 10, of their rich northern possession the Danites enjoyed the leisure and repose which had been denied them in their original seat.
In the time of David, Dan still kept its place among the tribes. 1 Chron. 12:35. Asher is omitted, but the “prince of the tribe of Dan” is mentioned in the list of 1 Chron. 27:22. But from this time forward the name as applied to the tribe vanishes; it is kept alive only by the northern city. In the genealogies of 1 Chron. 2-12 Dan is omitted entirely.
Lastly, Dan is omitted from the list of those who were sealed by the angel in the vision of John. Rev. 7:5-7. 2.
The well-known city, as familiar as the most northern landmark of Palestine, in the common expression “from Dan even to Beersheba.”
In Jacob’s blessing, Judah is compared to a lion, Dan to a serpent; now observe how Judah with his lion-like courage prospered and prevailed, but Dan with all his serpenting subtlety could get any ground; craft and artful management do not always bring about the wonders they pretend to.
What Dan came short of doing, it seems his neighbors the Ephraimites in part did for him; they put the Amorites under tribute.
The Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres—perhaps they agreed to dwell in the mountainous country, because they were unable to sustain themselves on the plain, and yet were so powerful that the Danites could not totally expel them; they were, however, forced to pay tribute, and thus the house of Joseph would rule over them.
A city in the Shephelah, the lowlands west of Jerusalem. It belonged to the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:42) and was assigned to the Kohathite Levites. The area surrounding Aijalon was the scene of the famous battle between Joshua and the five Amorite kings. This was the battle where Joshua made the sun stand still, while the Israelites destroyed their enemies
Concerning the matter of expelling the Canaanites from the Promised Land to make room for themselves it appears that the people of Israel were generally very careless both of their duty and interest in getting it done; they did not do what they should have done.
I can give four reasons for why they did not get it done:
1. It was on account of their slothfulness and cowardice. They would not put themselves through the struggle and perhaps the pain necessary to complete their conquests.
2. It was owing to their covetousness; the Canaanites’ labor and money would do them more good (so they thought) than their blood, and therefore they were willing to let them live among them, so that they might make a good use of them.
3. They did not have that dread and loathing for idolatry which they ought to have had; they thought it a pity to put these Canaanites to the sword, though the measure of their iniquity was full, they thought it would do them no harm to let them live among them, and that they would be in no danger from them.
4. The same thing that kept their fathers out of Canaan for forty years, kept them from taking full possession of it, and that was unbelief. Distrust of the power and promises of God lost them their advantages, and they ran.
Jg. 18.1) “In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.” This chapter begins by noting that there was no king in Israel, reminding us that much of the spiritual and political confusion of this time was due to a lack of unified leadership in the nation.
According to Numbers 26:43, the tribe of Dan had sixty-four thousand men. However, they were still unable to occupy the territory that was allotted to them because of the oppression of the Amorites and the Philistines.
It should be remembered that the Samson narrative also relates to the tribe of Dan. Samson, the strongest man, came from Dan, the weakest tribe! The difficulties in the conquest and settlement of the land had caused a lack of precision regarding intertribal boundaries.
This is the part of you that works with your logic or your spirit to strike whilst the iron is hot.
This is your wisdom center that God wants to sharpen for His glory.
This is the part of us that knows how to use knowledge with wisdom.
Proverbs 4:7 “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all they getting get understanding.”
Patience teaches us how to mature in this area.
Summary: The debased Amorites were a gangrenous limb of the human race.
After bearing with them for hundreds of years, God decided that the only solution was amputation. The Israelite tribe of Dan failed to exterminate the pagan inhabitants of their lot.
The debased Amorites were a gangrenous limb of the human race. After bearing with them for hundreds of years, God decided that the only solution was amputation.
In Dan’s lot He committed the surgery to that tribe. But they failed to obey Him.
Here, the name Amorite is synonymous with name Canaanite.
The term appears in Assyrian documents as a designation of people from the west (of Mesopotamia). Finally, the chapter ends with the tragic statement that the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain (hill country) and would not even allow them to come down into the valley; probably that is where the chariots of iron were.
Thus, the Danites were driven into the hills for protection and safety, and they rarely made excursions from them. (The enemy always attempts to entrap us and isolate us.)
This brings to mind how the ancient Britons were driven into the mountains of Wales by the Romans; and the native Indians driven back into the woods by the British settlers in America.
Eventually, the Danites were unable to control any of their territory and were forced to migrate far to the north (ch. 18).
It is also interesting to note that Samson, the strongest man, came from Dan, the weakest tribe!
The fifth son of Jacob, and the first of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid. Dan records are unusually meager. Only one son is attributed to him, Gen. 46:23; but his tribe was, with the exception of Judah, the most numerous of all.
In the division of the promised land Dan was the last of the tribes to receive his portion, which was the smallest of the twelve.
Joshua. 19:47-48. But notwithstanding its smallness it had eminent natural advantages. 47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
On the north and east it was completely embraced by its two brother tribes Ephraim and Benjamin, while on the southeast and south it joined Judah, and was thus surrounded by the three most powerful states of the whole confederacy.
It was a rich and fertile district; but the Amorites soon “forced them into the mountain,” Judges 1:34, and they had another portion granted them.
Judges 18. In the “security” and “quiet,” Judges 18:7, 10, of their rich northern possession the Danites enjoyed the leisure and repose which had been denied them in their original seat.
In the time of David, Dan still kept its place among the tribes. 1 Chron. 12:35. Asher is omitted, but the “prince of the tribe of Dan” is mentioned in the list of 1 Chron. 27:22. But from this time forward the name as applied to the tribe vanishes; it is kept alive only by the northern city. In the genealogies of 1 Chron. 2-12 Dan is omitted entirely.
Lastly, Dan is omitted from the list of those who were sealed by the angel in the vision of John. Rev. 7:5-7. 2.
The well-known city, as familiar as the most northern landmark of Palestine, in the common expression “from Dan even to Beersheba.”
In Jacob’s blessing, Judah is compared to a lion, Dan to a serpent; now observe how Judah with his lion-like courage prospered and prevailed, but Dan with all his serpenting subtlety could get any ground; craft and artful management do not always bring about the wonders they pretend to.
What Dan came short of doing, it seems his neighbors the Ephraimites in part did for him; they put the Amorites under tribute.
The Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres—perhaps they agreed to dwell in the mountainous country, because they were unable to sustain themselves on the plain, and yet were so powerful that the Danites could not totally expel them; they were, however, forced to pay tribute, and thus the house of Joseph would rule over them.
A city in the Shephelah, the lowlands west of Jerusalem. It belonged to the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:42) and was assigned to the Kohathite Levites. The area surrounding Aijalon was the scene of the famous battle between Joshua and the five Amorite kings. This was the battle where Joshua made the sun stand still, while the Israelites destroyed their enemies
Concerning the matter of expelling the Canaanites from the Promised Land to make room for themselves it appears that the people of Israel were generally very careless both of their duty and interest in getting it done; they did not do what they should have done.
I can give four reasons for why they did not get it done:
1. It was on account of their slothfulness and cowardice. They would not put themselves through the struggle and perhaps the pain necessary to complete their conquests.
2. It was owing to their covetousness; the Canaanites’ labor and money would do them more good (so they thought) than their blood, and therefore they were willing to let them live among them, so that they might make a good use of them.
3. They did not have that dread and loathing for idolatry which they ought to have had; they thought it a pity to put these Canaanites to the sword, though the measure of their iniquity was full, they thought it would do them no harm to let them live among them, and that they would be in no danger from them.
4. The same thing that kept their fathers out of Canaan for forty years, kept them from taking full possession of it, and that was unbelief. Distrust of the power and promises of God lost them their advantages, and they ran.
Jg. 18.1) “In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.” This chapter begins by noting that there was no king in Israel, reminding us that much of the spiritual and political confusion of this time was due to a lack of unified leadership in the nation.
According to Numbers 26:43, the tribe of Dan had sixty-four thousand men. However, they were still unable to occupy the territory that was allotted to them because of the oppression of the Amorites and the Philistines.
It should be remembered that the Samson narrative also relates to the tribe of Dan. Samson, the strongest man, came from Dan, the weakest tribe! The difficulties in the conquest and settlement of the land had caused a lack of precision regarding intertribal boundaries.
ACTION STEP: Keep yourself from a spirit of lying or anger. Anger blinds us and darkens our minds. Pray for God to forgive you for past lying and anger and ask Him for grace to be cleansed from this wickedness; so you can achieve your Godly inheritance and obtain a good reward. Finish what God called you to do! Starting is not obedience--finishing is!
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