Judges 18:13

📚 Historical Context

In the time of the Judges, Israel was a loose confederation of tribes without a central king, leading to periods of moral and spiritual decline as people often turned to idols and personal shrines. The tribe of Dan was seeking new territory because they had failed to fully conquer their allotted land, so they sent spies to explore other areas. These spies traveled through the hill country of Ephraim and arrived at the house of Micah, a man who had set up his own religious items and hired a Levite as his priest.