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Geneva Study Bible - Judges 17:9

17:9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, {g} I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].(g) For in those days the service of God was corrupt in all estates and the Levites were not looked to. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Judges 17:1-13

APPENDIX TO THE BOOK The chapters concluding the book detail certain incidents at various periods during the preceding history, when the whole nation was disordered and corrupt, and “every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” A MAN-MADE PRIEST (Judges 17:0 ) Chapter 17 tells of Micah who established his own imitation of the tabernacle. Of course it was contrary to the law and evinced ignorance and superstition, although the motive may not have been bad. ORIGIN OF THE CITY OF... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Judges 17:1-13

Judges 17:0 (Annotated) Judges 17:0 ["A wholly disconnected narrative here follows, without any mark of time by which to indicate whether the events preceded or followed those narrated in the preceding chapter. The only point of contact with the preceding history of Samson is that we are still concerned with the tribe of Dan. The Speaker's Commentary. ] 1. And there was [before the days of Samson] a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah [a contraction of Micayehû = who is like Jehovah].... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 17:9-12

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 maintenance it was after all. Bread just to keep him from starving, a coarse garment for every day, and a little better for the Lord's day, and ten shekels of silver a year: that is about five and twenty shillings in value of our money. Oh! Lord! rather let thy true servants in the gospel of thy dear Son,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Judges 17:7-13

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 bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Judges 17:7-13

A Levite Made the Idol's Priest v. 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. v. 8. And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehem-judah to sojourn where he could find a place. Many of the cities which had been allotted to the Levites being still in the hands of the Canaanites, this man had no real home, and so traveled from the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 17:1-13

PART THIRDThe conclusion of the Book, tracing the evils of the period, the decay of the priesthood, the self-will of individuals, and the prevalence of licentiousness, passion, and discord, to the absence of a fixed and permanent form of government.__________________FIRST SECTIONThe History Of Micah’s Private Temple And Image-worship: Showing The Individual Arbitrariness Of The Times, And Its Tendency To Subvert And Corrupt The Religious Institutions Of Israel__________________Micah, a man of... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 17:1-13

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 of the internal condition of the people, and it is probable that they were added with that intention by the historian. Micah's act was a violation of the second commandment. He made to himself and for his household certain images. In doing so he was not adopting the idolatries of the heathen. His... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 17:9

‘ And Micah said to him, “From where have you come?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.” ’ Micah would be providing hospitality and thus politely enquired as to where the man had come from as a fellow Israelite. And when he learned that the man was a Levite, and was looking for an opportunity to exercise his ministry, he recognised that here was an opportunity to make his house of God more significant and more orthodox. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 17:1-13

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 few places the text has evidently been tampered with by scribes, who took offence at practices which were from a later point of view irregular. The events in question must have occurred before the time of Deborah ( Judges 5:17). read more