And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley;

And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not place to go down to the plain:

The Amorites pressed the Danites back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain;

And the Amorites press the sons of Dan to the mountain, for they have not suffered them to go down to the valley;

And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;

And the Amorite hemmed in the sons of Dan on the mountain, and did not give them a place, so that they might descend to the flatlands.

The Amorites are usually found in the mountain Numbers 13:29; Joshua 10:6. Here they dwell in the valley, of which the monuments of Rameses III show them to have been in possession when that monarch invaded Syria. It was their great strength in this district, and their forcible detention of the territory of Daniel, which led to the expedition of the Danites Judg. 18. The house of Joseph lent their powerful aid in subduing them, probably in the times of the Judges.

The Amorites forced the children of Daniel, etc. - Just as the ancient Britons were driven into the mountains of Wales by the Romans; and the native Indians driven back into the woods by the British settlers in America.

And the Amorites forced the children of Daniel into the mountain,.... Into the mountainous part of the tribe of Daniel; the most noted mountains in it were Sear and Baalah, which lay on the border of Judah, Joshua 15:10; Joppa in this tribe was built on an high rock, and so Gibbethon, as its name seems to import, perhaps was built on a hill or mountain, as were the cities after mentioned:
for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley; which lay between Joppa and Caesarea, the plain of Sharon, in which were Lydda, Jamnia, &c. which belonged to their tribe, and they afterwards enjoyed; See Gill on Joshua 19:48.

The valley - That is, into the plain country; which was the occasion of that expedition for the getting new quarters, of which we read Joshua 19:47-48 and Judges. 18:1-31.