Judges 17:13
What meaning of the judges 17:13 in the Bible?
What does Judges 17:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest."
What does Judges 17:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest."
Verse Judges 17:13. _NOW KNOW I THAT THE LORD WILL DO ME GOOD_] As he had already provided an epitome of the _tabernacle_, a model of the _ark,_ _mercy-seat_, and _cherubim_; and had got proper _sacer...
This shows the ignorance as well as the superstition of the age (compare 2 Kings 18:22), and gives a picture of the lawlessness of the times. The incidental testimony to the Levitical priesthood is to...
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...
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...
DO ME GOOD. The "good" (as in all such cases) never came. For Micah is afterward robbed both of his idols and his priest....
This verse may belong to either of the two narratives....
DISCOURSE: 276 MICAH’S FALSE CONFIDENCE Judges 17:13. _Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest._ IN the history before us we see the commenceme...
THEN SAID MICAH, NOW KNOW I, &C.— What a strange infatuation! Micah is at the summit of his wishes because the Levite has accepted his offers, and because he sees his chapel consecrated, and a priest...
_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...
_THEN SAID MICAH, NOW KNOW I THAT THE LORD WILL DO ME GOOD, SEEING I HAVE A LEVITE TO MY PRIEST._ Now know I that the Lord will do me good. The removal of his son, followed by the installation of thi...
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 o...
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 s...
THAT THE LORD WILL DO ME GOOD. — In this anticipation we find a very little further on that he was rudely undeceived, and we are hardly in a position to know whether it was due to hypocrisy or to mere...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר מִיכָ֔ה עַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתִּי כִּֽי ־יֵיטִ֥יב יְהוָ֖ה לִ֑י כִּ֧י הָיָה ־לִ֛י הַ לֵּוִ֖י...
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...
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me (i) good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest. (i) Thus the idolaters persuade themselves of God's favour, when indeed he detests them....
Good. He was in hopes that the people would come and make their offerings with more zeal, so that he would derive greater advantage: the true character of superstitious misers, 1 Timothy vi. 5. (Calme...
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Is it not astonishing that Micah should look for good from the hand of Cod, while was thus doing evil?...
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...
THEN SAID MICAH,.... Within himself, pleased with what he had done, and with what he engaged in: NOW KNOW I THAT THE LORD WILL DO ME GOOD; that I shall enjoy his favour, be a happy man, and prosper;...
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest. Ver. 13. _Now know I that the Lord._] In his blind devotion he promiseth himself prosperity: so do Pa...
_Do me good_ I am assured God will bless me. So blind and grossly partial he was in his judgment, to think that one right circumstance would answer for all his substantial errors, in making and worshi...
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...
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 ta...
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...
I AM ASSURED GOD WILL BLESS ME. So blind and grossly partial he was in his judgment, to think that one right circumstance would answer for all his substantial errors, in making and worshipping images...
JUDGES 17:13 MICAH H4318 SAID H559 (H8799) KNOW H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 GOOD H3190 (H8686) LEVITE H3881 PRIEST H3548 Proverbs 14:12; Isaiah 44:20, Isaiah 66:3-4; Matthew 1
‘ Then said Micah, “Now I know that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to be my priest.” ' Micah was now even more satisfied with his house of God. He was sure that Yahweh would bless him...
NOW KNOW I A striking illustration of all apostasy. With his entire departure from the revealed will of God concerning worship and priesthood, there is yet an exaltation of false priesthood. Saying,...
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. Judges 17:1 describe internal threats. The most sordid and tragic st...
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...
Acts 26:9; Isaiah 44:20; Isaiah 66:3; Isaiah 66:4; John 16:2; Matthew 15:13; Matthew 15:9; Proverbs 14:12; Romans 10:2; Romans 10:3...
Do me good — I am assured God will bless me. So blind and grossly partial he was in his judgment, to think that one right circumstance would answer for all his substantial errors, in making and worshi...