JUDGES—NOTE ON Judges 17:9 Levite of Bethlehem. This Levite had been living as a sojourner, a resident alien, in Judah. The Levites did not have their own tribal territory, but they had 48 cities scattered among the other tribes (Joshua 21:1). However, Bethlehem was not one of those designated cities, and this Levite was only too happy to settle in Micah’s household as his private priest, displacing Micah’s son (Judges 17:10; see note on v. 5).

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