Judges 17:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 15:9 : 9 and the border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim);
  • Josh 17:14-18 : 14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me? 15 Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for you. 16 The children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel. 17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only: 18 but the hill-country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
  • Judg 10:1 : 1 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
  • Judg 18:2 : 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, search the land. They came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 17:2-13
    12 verses
    79%

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

    3He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most assuredly 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.

    4When 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.

    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.

    6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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

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

    9Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].

    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 by the year, and 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 said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Mic 1:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1The 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.

    2Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: And let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, The Lord from his holy temple.

  • 1 Sam 1:1
    72%

    1Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

  • Judg 18:2-4
    3 verses
    71%

    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, search 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? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?

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

  • 1 Chr 24:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

    25The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

  • 1 Chr 8:34-35
    2 verses
    70%

    34The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

    35The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.

  • 1 Chr 9:40-41
    2 verses
    70%

    40The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

    41The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, [and Ahaz].

  • Jer 36:11
    70%

    11When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh,

  • Judg 18:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    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 do you?

    19They said to him, Hold your peace, lay 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?

  • Jer 26:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

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

    18Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  • 1 Chr 9:37
    69%

    37and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.

  • 1 Chr 27:18
    69%

    18of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

  • Judg 19:16-18
    3 verses
    69%

    16Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned 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 go you? and whence come you?

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

  • 1 Sam 9:1
    68%

    1Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.

  • Ruth 1:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    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 sojourn 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.

  • Neh 10:11
    67%

    11Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

  • 1 Chr 23:20
    67%

    20The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

  • 2 Chr 18:8
    67%

    8Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

  • Josh 17:7
    67%

    7The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.

  • 1 Kgs 22:9
    67%

    9Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.

  • Mal 1:1
    66%

    1An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.

  • Judg 18:26
    66%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 17:12
    66%

    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.

  • 1 Chr 9:35
    66%

    35In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah:

  • Neh 11:31
    65%

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