Judges 17:13
Then Micah said, "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."
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- Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
- Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
- Isa 66:3-4 : 3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations: 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
- Matt 15:9 : 9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"
- Matt 15:13 : 13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.
- John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
- Acts 26:9 : 9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Rom 10:2-3 : 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
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- Judg 17:1-1212 verses88%
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.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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."
10 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.
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.
- Judg 18:3-64 verses84%
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."
6 The priest said to them, "Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh."
- Judg 18:13-153 verses71%
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.
- Judg 18:18-203 verses71%
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.
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4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.
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17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
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35 I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
- Deut 18:6-72 verses68%
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.
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10 "But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:
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1 The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
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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?
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17 He said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, 'These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.'"
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26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
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13 Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak."
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14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
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18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings.
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21 Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites," says Yahweh.
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14 Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak."
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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.
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11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
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6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
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16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
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20 House of Levi, praise Yahweh! You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
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16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
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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.
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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.
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7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
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17 Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him."
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9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
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18 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
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19 Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.