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11And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

Judges 17:11

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 7-13)

We have here an account of Micah’s furnishing himself with a Levite for his chaplain, either thinking his son, because the heir of his estate, too good to officiate, or rather, because not of God’s tribe, not good enough. Observe, I. What brought this Levite to Micah. By his mother’s side he was of the family of Judah, and lived at Bethlehem among his mother’s relations (for that was not a Levites...

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