E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 17:8
to sojourn. True worship neglected. Priests and Levites unemployed. Idolaters busy making idols and dancing. read more
士師記 17:7-8 Jcb
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Judges 17:7
A LEVITE COMES TO THE HOUSE OF MICAH"And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there. And the man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place; and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place. And Micah... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Judges 17:7
7. Beth-lehem-judah—so called in contradistinction to a town of the same name in Zebulun ( :-). of the family—that is, tribe. of Judah—Men of the tribe of Levi might connect themselves, as Aaron did ( :-), by marriage with another tribe; and this young Levite belonged to the tribe of Judah, by his mother's side, which accounts for his being in Beth-lehem, not one of the Levitical cities. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Judges 17:8
8. the man departed . . . to sojourn where he could find a place—A competent provision being secured for every member of the Levitical order, his wandering about showed him to have been a person of a roving disposition or unsettled habits. In the course of his journeying he came to the house of Micah, who, on learning what he was, engaged his permanent services. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 17:1-13
1. The idolatry of Micah ch. 17The story of Micah (ch. 17) introduces the account of the setting up of image worship in the North (ch. 18). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 17:7-13
Micah’s Levite 17:7-13Judges 17:1-6 stress the sin of self-styled worship. Judges 17:7-13 emphasize the folly of self-determined service.The writer did not call the young Levite who came to live with Micah a priest. He was evidently not a descendant of Aaron, though he was from the tribe of Levi. The Levites were, of course, living throughout Israel having received no tribal allotment of land but only cities within the territories of the other tribes. This young man had been living in Bethlehem... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 17:1-13
The Story of MicahThis 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 this narrative no condemnation of the image-worship to which the Danites attached such importance, nor of their mode of securing it. We can but wonder the more at the heights, which the religion of Israel was to climb from such beginnings as this. Cp. Joshua 19:47.1-6. Micab’s idols.1 Ephraim] see... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 17:1-25
The Migrations of the Danites, and the Feud between Benjamin and the other tribes (Judges 17-21)This concluding section is really an appendix. Instead of describing a further deliverance, it recounts two tribal stories m which the rough manners and primitive religious ideas of the time are shown with most valuable and vivid detail. Redundancies and discrepancies in the narratives (see on Judges 17:3; Judges 18:17) as well as differences in the language, suggest that more than one account has... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 17:7
(7) 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 distinguish it from the Bethlehem in Zebulon (Joshua 19:15). (See Note on Judges 12:8.) In later times, when Bethlehem was famous as David’s birthplace, and the other Bethlehem had sunk into insignificance, the descriptive addition is often dropped.Of the family of Judah.—It may be doubted whether this... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 17:7
a young man. See note on Judges 18:30 . Beth-lehem-Judah. To distinguish it from Beth-le-hem in Zebulun (Joshua 19:15 ). read more