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See also Judges 17 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    PART III Chapter s 17 18, and 19 21, form a double Appendix to the Book of Judges proper (Judges 2:6 to Judges 16:31). As they exhibit no traces of the characteristic handling of the Deuteronomic com...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 17 Judges 17:1-6 _Micah's image made._ Micah stole eleven hundred pieces of silver from his mother. When she uttered a curse concerning it, he confessed that he had stolen it. Nev...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 ruled, (a-12) _ Shaphat_ , lit. 'judged.' country (b-32) Lit. 'fields,' 'farmlands,' as ver. 6, and elsewhere. As 2 Kings 8:3 ,2 Kings 8:5 ....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XVII. Judges 17:1. An Ephraimite, named Micah, first steals eleven hundred shekels from his mother, and then restores them. Judges 17:3. She blesses him, and uses them, with his assistance, for the es...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 17 This chapter relates the first rise of idolatry in Israel after the death of Joshua, which began in Mount Ephraim, occasioned by a sum of money stolen by a man from his moth...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * The beginning of idolatry in Israel, Micah and his mother. (1-6) Micah hires a Levite to be his priest. (7-13)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGES CHAPTER 17-18. We now come to the third section of the Book of Judges. The first section in Judges 1 to Judges 2 was introductory to the activity taking place in Canaan after the time of Joshua...

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