Judges 17:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. ”

Judges 17:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This shows the ignorance as well as the superstition of the age (compare 2 Kings 18:22 ), and gives a picture of the lawlessness of the times. The incidental testimony to the Levitical priesthood...
Judges 17:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me (i) good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest. (i) Thus the idolaters persuade themselves of God's favour, when indeed he detests them.
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

do me good. The "good" (as in all such cases) never came. For Micah is afterward robbed both of his idols and his priest.
Judges 17:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 276 MICAH’S FALSE CONFIDENCE Judges 17:13 . Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. IN the history before us we see the comme...
Judges 17:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Now know I that the Lord will do me good - As he had already provided an epitome of the tabernacle, a...
Judges 17:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then said Micah, now know I, &c.— What a strange infatuation! Micah is at the summit of his wishes because the Levite has accepted his offers, and because he sees his chapel consecrated, and a...
Judges 17:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Now know I that the Lord will do me good. The removal of his son, followed by the installation...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That the Lord will do me good. — In this anticipation we find a very little further on that he was rudely undeceived, and we are hardly in a position to know whether it was due to hypocrisy or to m...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Is it not astonishing that Micah should look for good from the hand of Cod, while was thus doing evil?...
Judges 17:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said Micah ,.... Within himself, pleased with what he had done, and with what he engaged in: now know I that the Lord will do me good ; that I shall enjoy his favour, be a happy man, and pros...
Judges 17:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest. Ver. 13. Now know I that the Lord. ] In his blind devotion he promiseth himself prosperity: so do...
Judges 17:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Do me good I am assured God will bless me. So blind and grossly partial he was in his judgment, to think that one right circumstance would answer for all his substantial errors, in making and worsh...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am assured God will bless me. So blind and grossly partial he was in his judgment, to think that one right circumstance would answer for all his substantial errors, in making and worshipping imag...
Judges 17:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ Then said Micah, “Now I know that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to be my priest.” ' Micah was now even more satisfied with his house of God. He was sure that Yahweh would bless...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - Scofield Reference Notes

Now know I A striking illustration of all apostasy. With his entire departure from the revealed will of God concerning worship and priesthood, there is yet an exaltation of false priesthood. S...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - 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,...
Judges 17:13 - 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...
Judges 17:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Levite Made the Idol's Priest
Judges 17:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 26:9 ; Isaiah 44:20 ; Isaiah 66:3 ; Isaiah 66:4 ; John 16:2 ; Matthew 15:13 ; Matthew 15:9 ; Proverbs 14:12 ; Romans 10:2 ; Romans 10:3
Judges 17:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Do me good — I am assured God will bless me. So blind and grossly partial he was in his judgment, to think that one right circumstance would answer for all his substantial errors, in making and wor...

Judges 17:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 17:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Judges 17:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 17:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Judges 17:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 17:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 17:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 17:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 17:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 17:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 17:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 17:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 17:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 17:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 17:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 17:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 17:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 17:13 - Scofield Reference Notes

Judges 17:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 17:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 17:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 17:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 17:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 17:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes