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.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
Cross References
Joshua 19:15and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.
Judges 12:8And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Ruth 1:1And it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man went from Bethlehem-Judah, to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Micah 5:2(And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me [who is] to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.)
Matthew 2:5And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judaea; 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 →