Judges 17:7
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Cross References
Joshua 19:15and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Judges 12:8And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Ruth 1:1And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Micah 5:2But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
Matthew 2:5And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written through the prophet,
Matthew Henry on Judges 17:2-7
Micah and His Gods. ( b. c. 1406.) 1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord , my son. 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my… Read the whole commentary →