Judges 17:1
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Judges 17:1 in other translations
| BSB | Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim |
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| WEB | There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. |
| ASV | And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. |
| YLT | And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name is Micah, |
| DARBY | And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. |
| BBE | Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah. |
| Webster | And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. |
What does Judges 17:1 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Jud 17:1-4. Micah Restoring the Stolen Money to His Mother, She Makes Images.
1. a man of mount Ephraim--that is, the mountainous parts of Ephraim. This and the other narratives that follow form a miscellaneous collection, or appendix to the Book of Judges. It belongs to a period when the Hebrew nation was in a greatly disordered and corrupt state. This episode of Micah is connected with Jud 1:34. It relates to his foundation of a small sanctuary of his own--a miniature representation of the Shiloh tabernacle--which he stocked with images modelled probably in imitation of the ark and cherubim. Micah and his mother were sincere in their intention to honor God. But their faith was blended with a sad amount of ignorance and delusion. The divisive course they pursued, as well as the will-worship they practised, subjected the perpetrators to the penalty of death.Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Introduction
Micah, an Ephraimite, restores to his mother eleven hundred shekels of silver, which he had taken from her, Jdg 17:1, Jdg 17:2. She dedicates this to God; and out of a part of it makes a graven image and a molten image, and gets them up in the house of Micah, Jdg 17:3, Jdg 17:4; who consecrates one of his sons to be his priest, Jdg 17:5. He afterwards finds a Levite, whom he consecrates for a priest, and gives him annually ten shekels of silver, with his food and clothing, Jdg 17:6-13. Verse 1 And there was a man of Mount Ephraim - It is extremely difficult to fix the chronology of this and the following transactions. Some think them to be here in their natural order; others, that they happened in the time of Joshua, or immediately after the ancients who outlived Joshua. All that can be said with certainty is this, that they happened when there was no king in Israel; i.e., about the time of the Judges, or in some time of the anarchy, Jdg 17:6.Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 17:1-6
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Judges 17:1 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Judges 17:1
- Joshua 17:14-18
And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the Lord hath blessed me hitherto? And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee. And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth–shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel. And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only: …
- Joshua 15:9
And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath–jearim:
- Judges 18:2
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
- Judges 10:1
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
5 and he ornaments for them.
7 He hires a Levite to be his priest.
A.M. 2585. B.C. 1419. An. Ex. Is. 72. there was.It is extremely difficult to fix the chronology of this and the following transactions. Some think them to be here in their natural order; others that they happened in the time of Joshua, or immediately after the ancients who outlived him. All that can be said with certainly is, that they happened when there was no king in Israel; that is, about the time of the judges, or in some time of the anarchy. (ver. 6.)
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10:1; Jos 15:9; 17:14-18
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Context
- Judges 17:1
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
- Judges 17:2
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my son.
Judges 17:1 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | HUBO un hombre del monte de Ephraim, que se llamaba Michâs. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | *Et il y avait un homme de la montagne d’Éphraïm, dont le nom était Michée; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es war ein Mann vom Gebirge Ephraim, sein Name war Micha. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fuit eo tempore vir quidam de monte Ephraim nomine Michas, |