Judges 17:7
And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem in Judah — in the family of Judah — who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
Judges 12:8And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem 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 Beth-lehem in Judah went to sojourn in the field of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Micah 5:2(5-1) But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from ancient days.
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 →