Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 17:10
A father — That is, a priest, a spiritual father, a teacher or instructor. He pretends reverence and submission to him; and what is wanting in his wages, he pays him in titles.
A father — That is, a priest, a spiritual father, a teacher or instructor. He pretends reverence and submission to him; and what is wanting in his wages, he pays him in titles.
Verse Judges 17:10. _BE UNTO ME A FATHER AND A PRIEST_] Thou shalt be _master_ of my house, as if thou wert my father; and, as _priest_, thou shalt appear in the presence of God for me. The term _fath...
TEN SHEKELS - About 25 shillings to 26 shillings (see Exodus 38:24)....
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...
_father_ A title of honour given to a priest Judges 18:19, a counsellor Genesis 45:8, cf. [Apocr.] Esther 16:11, 1Ma 11:32, a prophet 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 6
_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 MICAH SAID UNTO HIM, DWELL WITH ME, AND BE UNTO ME A FATHER AND A PRIEST, AND I WILL GIVE THEE TEN SHEKELS OF SILVER BY THE YEAR, AND A SUIT OF APPAREL, AND THY VICTUALS. SO THE LEVITE WENT IN._...
FATHER] cp. 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 6:21 : also Genesis 45:8 a title of respect, which might be quite consistent with the priest's being supported as a son ...
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...
BE UNTO ME A FATHER AND A PRIEST. — The title “father” is here ecclesiastical, like “papa,” “pope,” &c, and this title was given to spiritual directors, as we find in several other passages in the Bib...
וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ לֹ֨ו מִיכָ֜ה שְׁבָ֣ה עִמָּדִ֗י וֶ
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...
_A father. So he styles him out of respect, as we do our directors. (Haydock) --- It is a title of dignity, Esther xvi. 11., 2 Machabees xiv. 37., and 2 Paralipomenon ii. 13. (Calmet) --- Pieces, sicl...
The sequel of this conference, too plainly marks the Levite ' s character. What an awful state must it be, in a Levite of God, to hire himself out in the service of idols; and what a pitiful maintenan...
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 MICAH SAID UNTO HIM, DWELL WITH ME,.... Hearing that he was a Levite, he thought him a fit man for his purpose, and would give some credit to, and put a better face upon his new form of worship, a...
And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in....
_Be unto me a father_ That is, a priest, a spiritual father, a teacher or instructer. He pretends reverence and submission to him; and what is wanting in his wages, he pays him in titles....
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...
A Levite Made the Idol's Priest...
And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, to be treated with all reverence and honor, AND I WILL GIVE THEE TEN SHEKELS OF SILVER BY THE YEAR (about $6. 40 cash) AND...
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...
A SUIT OF APPAREL: Or, a double suit, etc: _Heb._ an order of garments...
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...
A FATHER AND A PRIEST; for, _a father_; that is, _a priest_; a spiritual father, a teacher or instructor, for such are called fathers: see 2 KINGS 6:21, 2 KINGS 8:9 13:14 ISAIAH 22:21. He pretends rev...
Judges 17:10 Micah H4318 said H559 (H8799) Dwell H3427 (H8798) father H1 priest H3548 give H5414 ...
‘ And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of clothing, and your keep.” ' This confirms that his religious...
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...
1 Peter 5:2; 1 Samuel 2:36; 1 Timothy 6:10; 2 Kings 13:14; 2 Kings 6:21