13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
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13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
13 and Micah saith, `Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.'
13 Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest."
13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
13 Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Commentary on Judges 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
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. 20:28. 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.
Jdg 17:1-6
Here we have,
Jdg 17:7-13
We have here an account of Micah's furnishing himself with a Levite for his chaplain, either thinking his son, because the heir of his estate, too good to officiate, or rather, because not of God's tribe, not good enough. Observe,