Judges 17:10

World English Bible (2000)

Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food." So the Levite went in.

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  • Gen 45:8 : 8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  • Judg 17:11 : 11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
  • Judg 18:19-20 : 19 They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?" 20 The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"
  • 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"
  • 2 Kgs 8:8-9 : 8 The king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'" 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
  • 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"
  • Job 29:16 : 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
  • Isa 22:21 : 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
  • John 12:6 : 6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 17:11-13
    3 verses
    86%

    11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

    12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

    13 Then Micah said, "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."

  • Judg 17:7-9
    3 verses
    84%

    7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

    8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

    9 Micah said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live."

  • Judg 18:2-5
    4 verses
    84%

    2 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

    3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, "Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?"

    4 He said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest."

    5 They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."

  • Judg 18:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18 When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"

    19 They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

    20 The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people.

  • Judg 17:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

    1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

    2 He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." His mother said, "Blessed be my son of Yahweh."

    3 He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, "I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you."

    4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

    5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13 They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

    14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do."

    15 They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

  • Deut 10:9
    71%

    9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

  • Deut 14:27
    70%

    27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

  • Neh 10:37-38
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    70%

    37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

    38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.

  • 1 Sam 2:36
    69%

    36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

  • Num 16:10
    69%

    10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?

  • Zech 11:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12 I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

    13 Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.

  • Deut 18:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;

    7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.

  • Num 18:21
    67%

    21 "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Num 18:6
    67%

    6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Num 18:2
    67%

    2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.

  • Heb 7:9
    66%

    9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

  • Judg 19:18
    66%

    18 He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.

  • Lev 27:8
    66%

    8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

  • Deut 14:29
    66%

    29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • Judg 18:24
    66%

    24 He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what more do I have? How then do you say to me, 'What ails you?'"

  • Judg 18:27
    66%

    27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

  • Heb 7:5
    66%

    5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

  • 1 Kgs 13:15
    66%

    15 Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread."

  • Jer 26:17
    66%

    17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

  • Deut 18:3
    65%

    3 This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

  • Gen 30:28
    65%

    28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

  • Num 3:6
    65%

    6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

  • Deut 26:11
    65%

    11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.

  • Judg 19:20
    65%

    20 The old man said, "Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street."

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    65%

    15 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."