SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:28
Y no hubo quien los defendiese, porque estaban lejos de Sidón, y no tenían comercio con nadie. Y la ciudad estaba en el valle que hay en Bet-rehob. Luego reedificaron la ciudad, y habitaron en ella.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 18:28
Verse 28. There was no deliverer] They had no succour, because the Sidonians, from whom they might have expected it, were at too great a distance.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon , etc.] Under whose government and protection they seem to have been; and that city being at a distance from them, and the Danites coming upon them suddenly, there was no time to send to them for help, or any to come in to their assistance, and save them from their enemies, (see Judges 18:7) and they had no business with any man ; that could have given them notice of the design of the children of Dan against them, nor to the Zidonians to come soon enough for their protection and defence; none there were in alliance with them except them: and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob ; which lay in the northern border of the land of Canaan, as you go to Hamath of Syria, (see Gill on “ Numbers 13:21”). and they built a city to dwell there ; not a new one altogether, but they rebuilt and enlarged Laish, and made it convenient for them to dwell in.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The Danites seek to enlarge their inheritance, and rob Micah. --The Danites determined to take Micah's gods with them. Oh the foll of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods should protec them, that could not keep themselves from being stolen! To take the for their own use, was a double crime; it showed they neither feare 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 ha made, when He only is to be worshipped by us as God, that made us! Tha is put in God's place, which we are concerned about, as if our all wer 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 __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואין 369 מציל 5337 כי 3588 רחוקה 7350 היא 1931 מצידון 6721 ודבר 1697 אין 369 להם עם 5973 אדם 120 והיא 1931 בעמק 6010 אשׁר 834 לבית רחוב 1050 ויבנו 1129 את 853 העיר 5892 וישׁבו׃ 3427
