12And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi: …
And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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