And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Ver. 7. And there was a young man.] Puer: so he is called ratione ministerii Exo 33:11 saith Junius. And why not for his folly? as Genesis 34:19. Neque distulit puer? A novice he was, Cereus in vitium flecti, one that would murder souls for a morsel of bread; Eze 13:19 which was the worse in him, because this was Jonathan, the nephew of Moses the man of God: for men are therefore worse than others, because they ought to be better. See Judges 18:30 .