10 And Micah H4318 said H559 unto him, Dwell H3427 with me, and be unto me a father H1 and a priest, H3548 and I will give H5414 thee ten H6235 shekels of silver H3701 by the year, H3117 and a suit H6187 of apparel, H899 and thy victuals. H4241 So the Levite H3881 went in. H3212
11 And the Levite H3881 was content H2974 to dwell H3427 with the man; H376 and the young man H5288 was unto him as one H259 of his sons. H1121
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Commentary on Judges 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
All agree that what is related in this and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book was not done, as the narrative occurs, after Samson, but long before, even soon after the death of Joshua, in the days of Phinehas the son of Eleazar, ch. 20:28. But it is cast here into the latter part of the book that it might not interrupt the history of the Judges. That it might appear how happy the nation was in the judges it is here shown how unhappy they were when there was none.
Jdg 17:1-6
Here we have,
Jdg 17:7-13
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,