Judges 18:28 Meaning and Explanation
“And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →With no one to rescue the isolated city, the Danites rebuild on its site and settle there.
What Does Judges 18:28 Mean?
No one comes to deliver Laish, for it lay far from Sidon and had no alliances to call upon. In the valley near Beth-rehob the Danites build their own city on the ruins and settle in it.
The phrase 'there was no deliverer' falls heavily in a book that elsewhere tells of God raising up deliverers for His people. Here a people perish with none to save them. Scripture lets the absence ache, sharpening the reader's hope for the true Deliverer, the One who comes to seek and save the lost and who is never far off from those who call upon Him.
Judges 18:28 in the Original Language
natsal (נָצַל), 'deliver' -- to rescue or snatch away from danger, the very help Laish lacked.
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What does Judges 18:28 mean?
With no one to rescue the isolated city, the Danites rebuild on its site and settle there.