Judges 17:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. ”

• Judges 17:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the Levite was (h) content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. (h) Not considering that he forsook the true worship of God to maintain his own belly.

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• Judges 17:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Judges 17-18 . This section is the first of two supplements. It explains the origin of the famous shrine at Dan, and the naî veté of its moral and religious ideas proves how ancient it is. In not...

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• Judges 17:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. The Levite was content - He thought the place a good one, and the wages respectable.

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• Judges 17:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Judges 17:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Story of Micah This story, which is continued in the following c, is undoubtedly a very old one. In striking contrast to many other narrative portions of the Old Testament, there is in the bod...

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• Judges 17:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Was unto him as one of his sons. — The words are added by way of reflection on his subsequent ingratitude.

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• Judges 17:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE STOLEN GODS Judges 17:1-13 , Judges 18:1-31 THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with that wh...

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• Judges 17:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the final section of the Book of Judges which is of the nature of an appendix. The events here recorded must have taken place closely following the death of Joshua. They give us a picture...

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• Judges 17:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The sequel of this conference, too plainly marks the Levite ' s character. What an awful state must it be, in a Levite of God, to hire himself out in the service of idols; and what a pitiful maintena...

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• Judges 17:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Levite was content to dwell with the man ,.... To continue with him; after he had made trial for some time, he liked his service, and his wages, and way of living; it was all agreeable to hi...

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• Judges 17:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. Ver. 11. Was unto him as one of his sons. ] For good usage, good will, and good cheap titles,...

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• Judges 17:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Levite was content Being infected with the common superstition and idolatry of the times. As one of his sons That is, treated with the same degree of kindness and affection. Micah consecrate...

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• Judges 17:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BOLD IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL (vv. 1-13) Samson was the last judge in Israel. The last five Chapter s of Judges -- 17 to 21 -- deal with conditions during the time of the Judges, so do not necessarily...

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• Judges 17:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.   8 And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah to sojou...

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• Judges 17:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The Levite was content; being constrained by necessity, and infected with the common contagion of the superstition and idolatry of the times. Was unto him as one of his sons, i.e. treated with th...

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• Judges 17:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man was to him as one of his sons.' The Levite accepted the offer and was welcomed into the household at the level of a son of th...

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• Judges 17:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  IDOLATRY IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE—BY IMAGE-WORSHIP ( Judges 17:1-13 .) HOMILETICS I. Idolatry begins with those who are not upright in moral conduct. Judges 17:1-4 . Micah himself is first hea...

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• Judges 17:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Judges 17:1 . A man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. This was soon after the death of Joshua, says Josephus, and before the civil war with Benjamin. Judges 17:2 . About which thou cursed...

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• Judges 17:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Micah. Micah’s mother In the second verse of this chapter Micah makes a clean confession of a great wrong which he had done to his mother. “It seems,” says Matthew Henry, “that this old woman,...

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• Judges 17:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Judges 17:1 We here light upon quite a different kind of history from that which has preceded. We no longer have to do with judges and their mighty deeds in delivering Israel fro...

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• Judges 17:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Levite Made the Idol's Priest

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• Judges 17:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Content — Being infected with the common superstition and idolatry of the times. His sons — That is, treated with the same degree of kindness and affection.

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