The Exploration of the Tribe of Dan

As already has been pointed out, the age of the judges was characterized by lawlessness. In these final chapters, the sacred writer tells us over and over that every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and the reason he gives is, that there was no king in Israel. The final section of the book of Judges is formed of examples of such lawlessness to the number of three and the second of these is the exploration of the tribe of Dan, the first one being that of Micah's spurious sanctuary,...