Judges 17:8

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Josh 24:33 : 33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
  • 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.
  • Neh 13:10-11 : 10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled everyone to his field. 11 Then I contended with the rulers, and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 17:9-13
    5 verses
    89%

    9Micah 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."

    10Micah 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.

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

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

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

  • Judg 17:7
    88%

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

  • Judg 19:9-18
    10 verses
    81%

    9When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home."

    10But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him.

    11When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, "Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it."

    12His master said to him, "We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah."

    13He said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah."

    14So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

    15They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.

    16Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

    17He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?"

    18He 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.

  • Judg 18:12-15
    4 verses
    81%

    12They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah: therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.

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

    14Then 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."

    15They 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 17:1
    79%

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

  • Judg 18:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2The 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.

    3When 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?"

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

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

  • Judg 17:5
    73%

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

  • Jer 41:17
    72%

    17and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

  • Ruth 1:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

    2The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

  • Judg 19:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

    2His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.

  • Gen 37:15
    70%

    15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

  • Judg 18:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18When 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?"

    19They 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?"

  • Luke 2:4
    70%

    4Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

  • Judg 18:26
    69%

    26The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

  • 2 Kgs 10:12
    69%

    12He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,

  • Ps 132:6
    69%

    6Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:

  • 1 Sam 1:3
    69%

    3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    68%

    15Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 7:17
    68%

    17His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.

  • Gen 13:3
    68%

    3He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

  • Neh 11:31
    68%

    31The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

  • 1 Sam 4:16
    68%

    16The man said to Eli, "I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army." He said, "How did the matter go, my son?"

  • Mic 5:2
    67%

    2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

  • Deut 18:6
    67%

    6If 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;

  • Gen 37:17
    67%

    17The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.