Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 18:1

IN those days there was no king in Israel and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in, for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

Not long after Ioshua's death, of which see on Iudg. 17. 6▪

i. e. A part or branch of that Tribe, consisting onely of 600 men of War, v. 16. with their Families, v. 21. or, a Family of the Danites; for the word, Schebet, which properly signifies a Tribe, is sometimes taken for a Family, as Iudg. 20. 12. as elsewhere Family is put for a Tribe, as Zech. 12. 13.

The Lot had fallen to them before this time, Ios. 19. 40, &c. but not the actual possession of their Lot, because therein the Philistines and Amorites opposed them, not without success. See Ios. 19. 40. Iudg. 1. 34.

Marginal references: Chap. 17. 6. and 21. 25.; Josh. 19. 47.