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Judges 17 - Introduction

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 mother, which being restored, part was converted to an idolatrous use; two images were made of it, Judges 17:1 and there being no king in Israel to take cognizance of it, the idolatry took place and continued, and afterwards spread, Judges 17:6, and this idolater not only made one of his sons a priest, but took a Levite for another, whom he hired by the year to serve him,

Judges 17:7.

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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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2598. B.C. 1406._ Micah setteth up an image in his house in Ephraim, and makes an ephod, Judges 17:1. He gets a Levite to be his priest, Judges 17:7....

  • 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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