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Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 17:1-6

Micah’s unlawful worship 17:1-6The writer told us nothing about Micah’s background, except that he originally lived in the Hill Country of Ephraim, with or near his mother (Judges 17:1-2). Micah’s name means "Who is like Yahweh." As is true of so many details in this story, Micah’s name is ironic. He was anything but like Yahweh. The fact that Micah’s mother blessed him in the name of Yahweh creates a positive impression, but other features of the story demonstrate that her veneer of orthodox... 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

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 17:1

(1) There was.—The Vulg. has, “there was at that time” which is an error, for these events happened before the days of Samson.A man of mount Ephraim.—The hill-district of Ephraim, as in Judges 2:9. The Talmud (Sanhedr. 103, b) says that he lived at Garab, not far from Shiloh, but the name (“a blotch”) is probably a term of scorn (Deuteronomy 28:27). Similarly, we find in Perachim, 117, a, that he lived at Bochi. (See Judges 2:1-5.) Most of the idolatrous violations of the second commandment... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Judges 17:1-13

Judges 17:9-11 After that first fervour of simple devotion, which his beloved Jesuit priest had inspired in him, speculative theology took but little hold on the young man's mind. When his early credulity was disturbed, and his saints and virgins taken out of his worship, to rank little higher than the divinities of Olympus, his belief became acquiescence rather than the ardour; and he made his mind up to assume the cassock and bands, as another man does to wear a breastplate and jack-boots, or... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Judges 17:1-13

THE STOLEN GODSJudges 17:1-13, Judges 18:1-31THE 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 before. We read {; Judges 18:30} that "Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land." But the proper reading is, "Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses." It would seem that the renegade... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Judges 17:1-13

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 (Judges 17:1-6 ) 2. The Levite hired for a priest (Judges 17:7-13 ) The last five chapters of the book form an appendix. The events given did not occur after Samson’s death, but they happened many years before. These chapters are not in chronological order but arranged in this way to teach the root of... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Judges 17:1

17:1 And there {a} was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was] Micah.(a) Some think this history was in the time of Othniel, or as Josephus writes, immediately after Joshua. 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

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