Judges 17:11 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 17:11

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

KJV

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ASV

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

WEB

and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.

YLT

And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons.

DBT

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

About this book

Old Testament

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Judges 17:8
And the man departed out of the city from Beth–lehem–judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
Judges 17:10
And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

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1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): He was content to dwell with the man; though his work was superstitious and his wages were scandalous, he objected against neither, but thought himself happy that he had lighted on so good a house.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Content - Being infected with the common superstition and idolatry of the times. His sons - That is, treated with the same degree of kindness and affection.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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