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Judges 17:1
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There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah.
There was a man of the hill-country of Efrayim, whose name was Mikhah.
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim; his name was Micah.
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
There was a man named Micah who lived in the mountains of Ephraim.
There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
There was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Michah,
Daar was 'n man van die gebergte van Efraim met die naam van Miga.
There was a man from the hills of Efrayim named Mikhay'hu.
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
There was a man named Micah who lived in the hill country of Ephraim.
AND there was a man from mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
There was once a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim.
And there was a man of the hills of Ephraim, and his name was Micah.
There was a man vpo mount Ephraim, named Micha
And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.
There was a man of mount Ephraim, named Micah.
Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, and his name was Michaias.
And there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
In that tyme was a man, `Mycas bi name, of the hil of Effraym.
And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Micah,
And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was] Micah.
There was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Now there was a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
There was a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim.
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
And there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose, name, was Micah.
There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Michas.
There was a man of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Micah.
There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah. He said to his mother, "Remember that 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you? I overheard you when you pronounced your curse. Well, I have the money; I stole it. But now I've brought it back to you." His mother said, " God bless you, my son!"
Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 2585, bc 1419, An, Ex, Is, 72
there was: It is extremely difficult to fix the chronology of this and the following transactions. Some think them to be here in their natural order; others that they happened in the time of Joshua, or immediately after the ancients who outlived him. All that can be said with certainly is, that they happened when there was no king in Israel; that is, about the time of the judges, or in some time of the anarchy - Judges 17:6.
mount: Judges 10:1, Joshua 15:9, Joshua 17:14-18
Reciprocal: Judges 3:27 - mountain Judges 18:2 - mount Judges 18:13 - mount Ephraim Judges 19:1 - mount 1 Samuel 1:1 - mount 1 Samuel 9:4 - mount 1 Kings 4:8 - The son of Hur Hosea 2:8 - which they prepared for Baal
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and during the next three hundred years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God,
The Lord said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.
but the Lord appeared to Abram and promised, "I will give this land to your family forever." Abram then built an altar there for the Lord .
One hot summer afternoon Abraham was sitting by the entrance to his tent near the sacred trees of Mamre, when the Lord appeared to him.
I am the Lord ! There is nothing too difficult for me. I'll come back next year at the time I promised, and Sarah will already have a son."
I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation.
Then he gave Joseph his blessing and said: My grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac worshiped the Lord God. He has been with me all my life,
But when I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I came as God All-Powerful and did not use my name.
The Lord answered, "I can do anything! Watch and you'll see my words come true."
The Lord your God is more powerful than all other gods and lords, and his tremendous power is to be feared. His decisions are always fair, and you cannot bribe him to change his mind.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And there was a man of Mount Ephraim,.... This and the four following chapters contain an history of facts, which were done not after the death of Samson, as some have thought, and as they may seem at first sight, by the order in which they are laid; but long before his time, and indeed before any of the judges in Israel, when there was no king, judge, or supreme governor among them, as appears from
Judges 17:6 even between the death of Joshua and the elders, and the first judge of Israel, Othniel; and so Josephus e places them in his history, and the connection of them is with Judges 2:10 and so accounts for the rise of idolatry in Israel, how it got into the tribe of Dan, and spread itself over all the tribes of Israel, Judges 2:11 which brought on their servitude to Cushanrishathaim, in which time the Jewish chronology f places those events; but they were certainly before that, for the idolatry they fell into was the cause of it; yet could not be so early as the times of Joshua, and before his death; because in his days, and the days of the elders, Israel served the Lord; the reasons why they are postponed to the end of this book, and the account of them given here, are, according to Dr. Lightfoot g, that the reader observing how their state policy failed in the death of Samson, who was a Danite, might presently be showed God's justice in it, because their religion had first failed among the Danites; that when he observes that 1100 pieces of silver were given by every Philistine prince for the ruin of Samson, Judges 16:5 he might presently observe the 1100 pieces of silver that were given by Micah's mother for the making of an idol, which ruined religion in Samson's tribe; that the story of Micah, of the hill country of Ephraim, the first destroyer of religion, and the story of Samuel, of the hill country of Ephraim, the first reformer of religion, might be laid together somewhat near. That the facts after related were so early done as has been observed, appears from the following things; the priest of the idol Micah made was a grandson of Moses, Judges 18:30, the Danites' seeking to enlarge their possessions, related in the same chapter, was most probably as soon as they were driven into the mountains by the Amorites, Judges 1:34. Mahanah Dan, from whence they marched, and had its name from their expedition, Judges 18:12 is mentioned before in the history of Samson, Judges 13:25 and therefore the expedition must be before his time. Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, was alive at the battle of Gibeah, Judges 20:28 and Deborah speaks of the 40,000 Israelites slain by Benjamin at it, Judges 5:8. This man with whom the idolatry began was of the tribe of Ephraim, and dwelt in the mountainous part of it:
whose name was Micah; in the original it is Micajehu, with part of the name Jehovah affixed to it, as Dr. Lightfoot h remarks, till he set up his image, and thenceforward was called Micah; but, according to Abarbinel, the former was his name while he was a child, and in his youth, and with his mother, being a diminutive term, and when he became a man be was called Micah, Judges 17:5.
e Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 8, &c. f Seder Olam Rabba, c. 12. p. 33. g Works, vol. 1. p. 46. h Works, vol. 1. p. 45.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the introduction to the Book of Judges. The only point of contact with the preceding history of Samson is, that we are still concerned with the tribe of Dan. See Judges 18:1-2, note. Josephus combines in one narrative what we read here and in Judges 1:34, and places it, with the story in Judg. 18–21, immediately after the death of Joshua.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XVII
Micah, an Ephraimite, restores to his mother eleven hundred
shekels of silver, which he had taken from her, 1, 2.
She dedicates this to God; and out of a part of it makes a
graven image and a molten image, and gets them up tn the
house of Micah, 3, 4;
who consecrates one of his sons to be his priest, 5.
He afterwards finds a Levite, whom he consecrates for a priest,
and gives him annually ten shekels of silver, with his food and
clothing, 6-13.
NOTES ON CHAP. XVII
Verse Judges 17:1. And there was a man of Mount Ephraim — It is extremely difficult to fix the chronology of this and the following transactions. Some think them to be here in their natural order; others, that they happened in the time of Joshua, or immediately after the ancients who outlived Joshua. All that can be said with certainty is this, that they happened when there was no king in Israel; i.e., about the time of the Judges, or in some time of the anarchy, Judges 17:6.
