Judges 17:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 17

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

¹³Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Judges 17:13 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Judges 17:12 Judges 18:1 →

Original word meaning

— of 7

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 10:2-3
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. …
Acts 26:9
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Matthew 15:13
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Topics

Jonathan Minister, Christian

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Now know I that the Lord will do me good--The removal of his son, followed by the installation of this Levite into the priestly office, seems to have satisfied his conscience, that by what he deemed the orderly ministrations of religion he would prosper. This expression of his hope evinces the united influence of ignorance and superstition.