Judges 17:1

And there was a man of Mount Ephraim, and his name was Micah.

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And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

In Context

2And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou tookest to thyself, and about which thou cursedst me, and spokest in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it: and his mother said, Blessed be my son of the Lord.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:9And the border going forth from the top of the mountain terminates at the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and terminates at Mount Ephron; and the border will lead to Baalah; this is the city of Jearim.

Joshua 17:15And Joshua said to them, If thou be a great people, go up to the forest, and clear the land for thyself, if Mount Ephraim be too little for thee.

Joshua 24:30And it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, at the age of a hundred and ten years.

Judges 10:1And after Abimelech Tola the son of Puah rose up to save Israel, being the son of his father’s brother, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in Mount Ephraim.

Judges 18:13And they went on thence to the mount of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

Matthew Henry on Judges 17:1

All agree that what is related in this and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book was not done, as the narrative occurs, after Samson, but long before, even soon after the death of Joshua, in the days of Phinehas the son of Eleazar, ch. xx. 28 . But it is cast here into the latter part of the book that it might not interrupt the history of the Judges. That it might appear how happy the nation was in the judges it is here shown how unhappy they were when there was none. I. Then idolatry began in the… Read the whole commentary →

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