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Verse Judges 17:12. _MICAH CONSECRATED THE LEVITE_] וימלא את
יד _vayemalle_ _eth yad, he filled his hands_, i.e., he gave him an
_offering_ to present before the Lord, that he might be accepted by
hi...
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III. THE APPENDIX: ISRAEL'S INTERNAL CORRUPTION
1. Micah's and Dan's Idolatry and Its Punishment
CHAPTER 17 The Images Made and the Hired Priest
_ 1. The stolen money restored and the images (Judge...
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MICAH SECURES A LEVITE AS PRIEST.
Judges 17:7. The young man was a Judæ an by birth, and a Levite by
profession. It is a contradiction to say that he sojourned among his
own people. The clause should...
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JUDGES 17-18. This section is the first of two supplements. It
explains the origin of the famous shrine at Dan, and the _naî veté_
of its moral and religious ideas proves how ancient it is. In not a
f...
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HIS PRIEST. Not Jehovah's; see on Judges 17:5....
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_Micab's Hired Priest Judges 17:7-13_
7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of
Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
8 And the man departed out of the city from...
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_AND MICAH CONSECRATED THE LEVITE; AND THE YOUNG MAN BECAME HIS
PRIEST, AND WAS IN THE HOUSE OF MICAH._
Consecrated the Levite, х_ WAYªMALEE'_ (H4390) ... _ 'ET_ (H854) _
YAD_ (H3027), filled his han...
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THE STORY OF MICAH
This story, which is continued in the following c, is undoubtedly a
very old one. In striking contrast to many other narrative portions of
the Old Testament, there is in the body of...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 17
V1 There was a man called Micah from the hilly country where
Ephraim’s *tribe lived. V2 He said to his mother, ‘Someone stole
the 1100 pieces of...
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THE STOLEN GODS
Judges 17:1, Judges 18:1
THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth
chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with
that which has gone b...
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Here begins the final section of the Book of Judges which is of the
nature of an appendix. The events here recorded must have taken place
closely following the death of Joshua. They give us a picture...
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A Levite who had been living in Bethlehem set out in search of a new
place to live and came to the house of Micah. Micah offered to pay him
ten shekels of silver a year along with a suit of clothes an...
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The sequel of this conference, too plainly marks the Levite ' s
character. What an awful state must it be, in a Levite of God, to hire
himself out in the service of idols; and what a pitiful maintenan...
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My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire
to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar
character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21.
The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical
order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of
the...
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AND MICAH CONSECRATED THE LEVITE,.... Installed him into, and invested
him with the priestly office; in like manner he had consecrated his
son before, by filling his hand with sacrifices; see
Judges...
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_And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his
priest, and was in the house of Micah._
Ver. 12. _And Micah consecrated the Levite._] Which none might
lawfully do but the high priest....
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_The Levite was content_ Being infected with the common superstition
and idolatry of the times. _As one of his sons_ That is, treated with
the same degree of kindness and affection. _Micah consecrated...
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1 Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother
maketh Images,
5 and hee ornaments for them.
6 He hireth a Leuite to be his Priest.
1 AND there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose na...
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And Micah consecrated the Levite, filled his hand, the standing
expression for ordaining a priest, for inducting him into office,
taken from the ceremony of laying the offerings required at the
consec...
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A Levite Made the Idol's Priest...
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BOLD IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL
(vv. 1-13)
Samson was the last judge in Israel. The last five Chapter s of Judges
-- 17 to 21 -- deal with conditions during the time of the Judges, so
do not necessarily tak...
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7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his
images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please
themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bri...
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CONSECRATED THE LEVITE, to be a priest, for which he thought a
consecration necessary, as knowing that the Levites were no less
excluded from the priest's office than the people. BECAME HIS PRIEST,
in...
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Judges 17:12 Micah H4318 consecrated H4390 (H8762) H3027 Levite H3881
man H5288 priest H3548 house H1004 Micah...
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‘ And Micah installed (filled the hand of) the Levite, and the young
man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.'
The Levite was installed as priest in Micah's house of God. Strictly
of cour...
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CONTENTS: Micah's worship in self will.
CHARACTERS: Micah, his mother, a Levite.
CONCLUSION: The love of money makes much mischief; destroys the duty
and comfort of every relation and frequently lea...
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Judges 17:1. _A man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah._ This was
soon after the death of Joshua, says Josephus, and before the civil
war with Benjamin.
Judges 17:2. _About which thou cursedst._...
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_Micah._
MICAH’S MOTHER
In the second verse of this chapter Micah makes a clean confession of
a great wrong which he had done to his mother. “It seems,” says
Matthew Henry, “that this old woman, with...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 17:1 The Depths of Israel’s Unfaithfulness.
Whereas chs. Judges 2:1 describe external threats to Israel, chs....
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IDOLATRY IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE—BY IMAGE-WORSHIP
(Judges 17:1.)
_HOMILETICS_
I. IDOLATRY BEGINS WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT UPRIGHT IN MORAL CONDUCT.
Judges 17:1.
Micah himself is first heard of as stea...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 17:1
We here light upon quite a different kind of history from that which
has preceded. We no longer have to do with judges and their mighty
deeds in delivering Israel from his oppr...
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At this point the book of Judges, as far as its history, ends. What
remains in the book of Judges is not now in chronological order. This
is an appendix to the book of Judges as we get into chapter se...
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1 Kings 12:31; 1 Kings 13:33; 1 Kings 13:34; Judges 17:5; Judges 18:30
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Consecrated — To be a priest, for which he thought a consecration
necessary, as knowing the Levites were no less excluded from the
priest's office than the people. The young man — Instead of his son,...