8And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
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And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field. …
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
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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