Judges 17:1
And there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose, name, was Micah.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
In Context
Cross References
Joshua 15:9and the boundary turneth round, from the top of the mountain, unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and goeth out unto the cities of Mount Ephron,—then the boundary turneth round to Baalah, the same, is Kiriath-jearim;
Joshua 17:15And Joshua said unto them: If, a numerous people, thou art, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there, in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim,—seeing that, too narrow for thee, is the hill country of Ephraim.
Joshua 24:30And they buried him within the bounds of his own inheritance, in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash.
Judges 10:1And there arose, after Abimelech, to save Israel—Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man of Issachar,—and, he, used to sit in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim;
Judges 18:13And they passed on from thence unto the hill country of Ephraim,—and came as far as 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 →