Judges 17:8
This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house.
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- Josh 24:33 : 33 Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, where his son Phinehas had been assigned land.
- Judg 17:11 : 11 So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.
- Neh 13:10-11 : 10 I also discovered that the portions for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields. 11 So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking,“Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.
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- Judg 17:9-135 verses89%
9 Micah said to him,“Where do you come from?” He replied,“I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a new place to live.”
10 Micah said to him,“Stay with me. Become my adviser and priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, plus clothes and food.”
11 So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.
12 Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.
13 Micah said,“Now I know the LORD will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest.”
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7 Micah Hires a Professional There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.
- Judg 19:9-1810 verses81%
9 When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him,“Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.”
10 But the man did not want to stay another night. He left and traveled as far as Jebus(that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.
11 When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late and the servant said to his master,“Come on, let’s stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.”
12 But his master said to him,“We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”
13 He said to his servant,“Come on, we will go into one of the other towns and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
14 So they traveled on, and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.
15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.
16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah.(The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)
17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said,“Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”
18 The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.
- Judg 18:12-154 verses81%
12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah.(To this day that place is called Camp of Dan. It is west of Kiriath Jearim.)
13 From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah’s house.
14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen,“Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”
15 They stopped there, went inside the young Levite’s house(which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.
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1 Micah Makes His Own Religion There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.
- Judg 18:2-54 verses74%
2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, capable men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them,“Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house.
3 As they approached Micah’s house, they recognized the accent of the young Levite. So they stopped there and said to him,“Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”
4 He told them what Micah had done for him, saying,“He hired me and I became his priest.”
5 They said to him,“Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”
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5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.
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17 They set out to go to Egypt to get away from the Babylonians, but stopped at Geruth Kimham near Bethlehem.
- Ruth 1:1-22 verses71%
1 ¶ A Family Tragedy: Famine and Death During the time of the judges there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.
2 (Now the man’s name was Elimelech, his wife was Naomi, and his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were of the clan of Ephrath from Bethlehem in Judah.) They entered the region of Moab and settled there.
- Judg 19:1-22 verses71%
1 Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
2 However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
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15 When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him,“What are you looking for?”
- Judg 18:18-192 verses70%
18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them,“What are you doing?”
19 They said to him,“Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?”
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4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.
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26 The Danites went on their way; when Micah realized they were too strong to resist, he turned around and went home.
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12 Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,
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6 Look, we heard about it in Ephrathah, we found it in the territory of Jaar.
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3 This man would go up from his city year after year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies at Shiloh.(It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the LORD’s priests.)
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15 David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
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17 Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged Israel there and built an altar to the LORD there.
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3 And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.
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31 Some of the descendants of Benjamin settled in Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,
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16 The man said to Eli,“I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli asked,“How did things go, my son?”
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2 A King Will Come and a Remnant Will Prosper(5:1) As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah– from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, one whose origins are in the distant past.
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6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the LORD chooses
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17 The man said,“They left this area, for I heard them say,‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.