Judges 17:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Judges 17:7 —

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Micah 5:2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Ruth 1:1-2
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. …
Matthew 2:5-6
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, …
Genesis 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

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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. 7)

7. Beth-lehem-judah--so called in contradistinction to a town of the same name in Zebulun (Jos 19:15). of the family--that is, tribe. of Judah--Men of the tribe of Levi might connect themselves, as Aaron did (Ex 6:23), by marriage with another tribe; and this young Levite belonged to the tribe of Judah, by his mother’s side, which accounts for his being in Beth-lehem, not one of the Levitical citi…