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Judges 17:7
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, later the birthplace of the Savior, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there, he lived there for a while as a stranger.
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, later the birthplace of the Savior, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there, he lived there for a while as a stranger.
Verse Judges 17:7. _OF THE FAMILY OF JUDAH_] The word _family_ may be taken here for _tribe_; or the young man might have been of the tribe of _Judah_ by his _mother_, and of the tribe of _Levi_ by h...
The Hebrew words for “he sojourned there” are, שׁם גר _gêr_ _shām_, which words are used Judges 18:30 in the genealogy of this young Levite, whose name was “Jonathan, the son of Gershom” (גרשׁם _gê...
III. THE APPENDIX: ISRAEL'S INTERNAL CORRUPTION 1. Micah's and Dan's Idolatry and Its Punishment CHAPTER 17 The Images Made and the Hired Priest _ 1. The stolen money restored and the images (Judge...
MICAH SECURES A LEVITE AS PRIEST. Judges 17:7. The young man was a Judæ an by birth, and a Levite by profession. It is a contradiction to say that he sojourned among his own people. The clause should...
JUDGES 17-18. This section is the first of two supplements. It explains the origin of the famous shrine at Dan, and the _naî veté_ of its moral and religious ideas proves how ancient it is. In not a f...
A YOUNG MAN. See note on Judges 18:30. BETH-LEHEM-JUDAH. To distinguish it from Beth-le-hem in Zebulun (Joshua 19:15)....
_a young man … sojourned there_ i.e. in the neighbourhood of Micah's house. Technically the word _sojourner_(Hebr. _gçr_) means one who lives under the protection of a tribe to which he does not belon...
_Micab's Hired Priest Judges 17:7-13_ 7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. 8 And the man departed out of the city from...
_AND THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN OUT OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH OF THE FAMILY OF JUDAH, WHO WAS A LEVITE, AND HE SOJOURNED THERE._ Beth-lehem-judah - so called in contradistinction to a town of the same name in Zeb...
THE STORY OF MICAH This story, which is continued in the following c, is undoubtedly a very old one. In striking contrast to many other narrative portions of the Old Testament, there is in the body of...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 V1 There was a man called Micah from the hilly country where Ephraim’s *tribe lived. V2 He said to his mother, ‘Someone stole the 1100 pieces of...
A YOUNG MAN. — Later on in the story we, as it were incidentally, make the astonishing discovery that this young man was no other than a grandson of Moses. OUT OF BETH-LEHEM-JUDAH. — So called to dist...
וַ יְהִי ־נַ֗עַר מִ בֵּ֥ית לֶ֨חֶם֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה...
THE STOLEN GODS Judges 17:1, Judges 18:1 THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with that which has gone b...
Here begins the final section of the Book of Judges which is of the nature of an appendix. The events here recorded must have taken place closely following the death of Joshua. They give us a picture...
A Levite who had been living in Bethlehem set out in search of a new place to live and came to the house of Micah. Micah offered to pay him ten shekels of silver a year along with a suit of clothes an...
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah (f) of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there. (f) Which Bethlehem was in the tribe of Judah....
Another, is not in Hebrew or the Septuagint but it refers to the former young priest, the son of Michas, whose place he took. --- Thereof. It is uncertain whether this be spoken of the city or of the...
The rambling conduct of this young man, manifests his real principles. The Lord had made all suitable provision for his Levites, while they remained in his service. But when idolatry is set up in Isra...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21. The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of the...
AND THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN OUT OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH,.... As there were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, Joshua 19:15 and another in the tribe of Judah, the place here designed, Judah is added...
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there. Ver. 7. _And there was a young man._] _Puer:_ so he is called _ratione ministerii_...
_Beth-lehem-judah_ So called here, as Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:5, to distinguish it from Bethlehem in Zebulun. There he was born and bred. _Of Judah_ That is, of or belonging to the tribe of Judah; not...
1 Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother maketh Images, 5 and hee ornaments for them. 6 He hireth a Leuite to be his Priest. 1 AND there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose na...
BOLD IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL (vv. 1-13) Samson was the last judge in Israel. The last five Chapter s of Judges -- 17 to 21 -- deal with conditions during the time of the Judges, so do not necessarily tak...
7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bri...
OUT OF BETH-LEHEM-JUDAH, or, _of Beth-lehem-judah_; so called here, as MATTHEW 2:1,5, to difference it from Bethlehem in Zebulun, JOSHUA 19:15. There he was born and bred. Of the family of Judah, i.e....
Judges 17:7 man H5288 Bethlehem H1035 Judah H3063 family H4940 Judah H3063 Levite H3881 staying H1481 (H8804)...
‘ And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.' There were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, (Joshua 19:15), and this...
CONTENTS: Micah's worship in self will. CHARACTERS: Micah, his mother, a Levite. CONCLUSION: The love of money makes much mischief; destroys the duty and comfort of every relation and frequently lea...
Judges 17:1. _A man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah._ This was soon after the death of Joshua, says Josephus, and before the civil war with Benjamin. Judges 17:2. _About which thou cursedst._...
_Micah._ MICAH’S MOTHER In the second verse of this chapter Micah makes a clean confession of a great wrong which he had done to his mother. “It seems,” says Matthew Henry, “that this old woman, with...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 17:1 The Depths of Israel’s Unfaithfulness. Whereas chs. Judges 2:1 describe external threats to Israel, chs....
IDOLATRY IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE—BY IMAGE-WORSHIP (Judges 17:1.) _HOMILETICS_ I. IDOLATRY BEGINS WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT UPRIGHT IN MORAL CONDUCT. Judges 17:1. Micah himself is first heard of as stea...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 17:1 We here light upon quite a different kind of history from that which has preceded. We no longer have to do with judges and their mighty deeds in delivering Israel from his oppr...
At this point the book of Judges, as far as its history, ends. What remains in the book of Judges is not now in chronological order. This is an appendix to the book of Judges as we get into chapter se...
Genesis 35:19; Joshua 19:15; Judges 19:1; Judges 19:2; Micah 5:2;...
Bethlehem — judah — So called here, as Matthew 2:1, Matthew 2:5, to difference it from Bethlehem in Zebulun. There he was born and bred. Of Judah — That is, of or belonging to the tribe of Judah; not...