Judges 17:13 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

KJV

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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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

This shows the ignorance as well as the superstition of the age (compare 2Ki 18:22), and gives a picture of the lawlessness of the times. The incidental testimony to the Levitical priesthood is to be noted; but the idolatrous worship in the immediate neighborhood of Shiloh is passing strange.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
מִיכָ֔ה	mi.Khah	Micah	H4318 →
עַתָּ֣ה	'a.Tah	now	H6258 →
יָדַ֔עְתִּי	ya.Da'.ti	I know	H3045 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
יֵיטִ֥יב	yei.Tiv	he will do good	H3190 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
לִ֑י	Li	to <the> me
כִּ֧י	ki	for	H3588 →
הָיָה־	ha.yah-	he has become	H1961 →
לִ֛י	li	of me
הַלֵּוִ֖י	ha.le.Vi	the Levite	H3881 →
לְכֹהֵֽן׃	le.kho.Hen	<into> a priest	H3548 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
leads to
- Proverbs 16:25
  There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Matthew 7:13–14
  Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- Proverbs 12:15
  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
- Galatians 6:3
  If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- Luke 13:24
  “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Through
Matthew 15:13
But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
leads to
- John 15:2
  He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
- Isaiah 60:21
  Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
- John 15:6
  If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.