When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”
The Danites had sent out their spies to find out a country for them, and they sped well in their search; but here, now that they came to the place (for till this brought it to their mind it does not appear that they had mentioned it to their brethren), they oblige them with a further discovery - they can tell them where there are...
Commenting on Judges 18:14-26
And they cried unto the children of Dan,.... When they had got pretty near them, and in their hearing, they called to them aloud, and desired they would stop, having something to say to them: and they turned their faces; that is, the Danites turned and looked at them, and stopped to hear what they had to say to them; these were they who were...
Jdg 18:22-23 The two clauses of Jdg 18:22 are circumstantial clauses: “When they (the 600) had got to some distance from Micah’s house, and the men who were in the houses by Micah’s house were called together, and had overtaken the Danites, they (i.e., Micah and his people, whom he had called together from the neighbourhood to pursue the emigrants) called to the Danites; and...
Commenting on Judges 18:22-23