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  1. A familiar voice?<\/span><\/i> Did the Danites know the Levite lad, or did they just recognize an accent that was out of place? Maybe, since they themselves were looking for new digs, they were just networking: \u201c\u201cWho brought you to these parts? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?\u2019\u201d (verse 3).\/<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Now you\u2019re talking! <\/span><\/i>The enthusiasm to go up and take possession which was so lacking about 98 chapters ago (Numbers 13-14, the sin of the spies), makes its appearance here in verse 9: \u201c\u201cLet us go at once and attack them! For we found that the land was very good, and you are sitting idle! Don\u2019t delay; go and invade the land and take possession of it, for God has delivered it into your hand.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. An offer you can\u2019t refuse<\/span><\/i>. Listen to the dialogue between the Danites and Micha whose temple was robbed (verses 22-26). The \u201cfriendly advice\u201d that they give him sounds straight out of the Sopranos: \u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t do any shouting at us, or some desperate men might attack you, and you and your family would lose your lives\u201d (verse 25). Somebody just might get hoit, and we wouldn\u2019t want that now, would we?<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Distinguished lineage, but disguised<\/span><\/i>. The levitical priest of Dan has \u201cyichus\u201d (famous progenitors) – \u201cJonathan son of Gershom son of Manasseh\u201d (verse 30). The name of his grandfather in Hebrew is spelled \u05de\u05e0\u05e9\u05d4, one letter different from \u05de\u05e9\u05d4, who indeed had a son named Gershom. So is it Moses\u2019 grandson? Indeed, in the Hebrew the name is spelled like this: <\/span>\u05de\u05b0<\/span>\u05e0\u05b7<\/b>\u05e9\u05bc\u05c1\u05b6\u05d4<\/span> with a suspended \u201c\u05e0\u201d as if the name should be Moshe\/Moses, but we are being modest about it…<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. That\u2019s no way to build a temple.<\/i> Theft, greed, robbery, violence. 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