John Gill's Exposition on Judges 18:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, etc.] Or families, the singular being put for the plural; for it can hardly be thought that such a number of men, as after mentioned, went out of one family: out of Zorah, and out of Eshtaol; the two places the spies were sent from, and now had returned unto: and upon their report, and at their instigation, and by the encouragement they gave, there were six hundred men appointed with weapons of war; that set out armed from the above places, on the expedition to take Laish.

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