June 7 & 8, 2025
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Reading along with us in Judges, Proverbs, and Psalms? Here’s today’s reading:
Judges 18 (NIV)
The Danites Settle in Laish
1 In those days Israel had no king.
And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 2 So the Danites sent five of their leading men from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and explore it.…..Continue Reading
It doesn’t indicate anything good about the Danites that they have not secured an inheritance. And although God intended for the Jews to drive the native people from the land, it is not a good model to take advantage of people that are vulnerable. And they do the same to Micah. They take advantage of the information they have about what Micah has because of his hospitality to them. But they take advantage of him in all the wrong ways as well. They take the wrong elements of worship that Micah has and take it for themselves. So this act is not good on either end. But it is the nature of the times of the judges, where people are a law to themselves. How sad though that they didn’t remember even the rudimentary aspects of the law to not worship idols. How far they have fallen, but I guess that assumes they were solidly in the right understanding of truth in the first place. May we have enough truth in our hearts to guard against the things that contradict that truth…