士師記 17:7 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 17:7-13

We have here an account of Micah's furnishing himself with a Levite for his chaplain, either thinking his son, because the heir of his estate, too good to officiate, or rather, because not of God's tribe, not good enough. Observe, I. What brought this Levite to Micah. By his mother's side he was of the family of Judah, and lived at Bethlehem among his mother's relations (for that was not a Levites? city), or, upon some other account, as a stranger or inmate, sojourned there, Jdg. 17:7. Thence... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 17:7

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah ,.... As there were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, Joshua 19:15 and another in the tribe of Judah, the place here designed, Judah is added to it, to distinguish it from the other: of the family of Judah : which refers either to the young man, who was by his father's side a Levite, and by his mother's side, as Jarchi thinks, of the tribe of Judah, which seems very probable, though the genealogies of families were not reckoned... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 17:7

Of the family of Judah - The word family may be taken here for tribe; or the young man might have been of the tribe of Judah by his mother, and of the tribe of Levi by his father, for he is called here a Levite; and it is probable that he might have officiated at Shiloh, in the Levitical office. A Levite might marry into any other tribe, providing the woman was not an heiress. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 17:7

The Hebrew words for “he sojourned there” are, שׁם גר gêr shām, which words are used Judges 18:30 in the genealogy of this young Levite, whose name was “Jonathan, the son of Gershom” (גרשׁם gêreshôm). Hence, some read here, “the son of Gershom.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 17:7

Judges 17:7 . Beth-lehem-judah So called here, as Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:5, to distinguish it from Bethlehem in Zebulun. There he was born and bred. Of Judah That is, of or belonging to the tribe of Judah; not by birth, for he was a Levite; but by his habitation and ministration. For the Levites were dispersed among all the tribes: and this man’s lot fell into the tribe of Judah. Sojourned So he expresseth it, because this was not the proper place of his abode, this being no Levitical... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 17:1-13

17:1-21:25 TRIBAL DISORDER WITHIN ISRAELThe writer of the book has now finished his account of the activity of the judges. To this he adds an appendix consisting of two stories (not necessarily placed in their correct chronological position in the book) that illustrate the disorder that existed in Israel during that period. The nation had no central government and people in the various tribes did as they pleased (see 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25). The stories record important changes that occurred... read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

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

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