13Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
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For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. …
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
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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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