Judges Chapter 17 verse 1 Holy Bible
And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
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Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.
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There was a man of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Micah.
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And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
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And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
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There was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
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And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name `is' Micah,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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 from his oppressors, but with two detached histories, which fill up the rest of the book, relating to the internal affairs of Israel. There is no note of time, except that they happened before the time of Saul the king (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1), and. that Phinehas the son of Eleazar was alive at the time of the occurrence of the second (Judges 20:28). Both, no doubt, are long prior to Samson. The only apparent connection of the history of Micah with that of Samson is that both relate to the tribe of Dan, and it may be presumed were contained in the annals of that tribe. Compare the opening of the Books of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1). Mount Ephraim; i.e. the hill country of Ephraim, as in Judges 3:27; Judges 7:24, etc.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) There was.--The Vulg. has, "there was at that time" which is an error, for these events happened before the days of Samson.A man of mount Ephraim.--The hill-district of Ephraim, as in Judges 2:9. The Talmud (Sanhedr. 103, b) says that he lived at Garab, not far from Shiloh, but the name ("a blotch") is probably a term of scorn (Deuteronomy 28:27). Similarly, we find in Perachim, 117, a, that he lived at Bochi. (See Judges 2:1-5.) Most of the idolatrous violations of the second commandment occurred in the northern kingdom (Gideon, Judges 8:27; Micah, Judges 17; Jeroboam, 1 Kings 12, 13). These apostasies were not a worship of other gods, but a worship of the true God under unauthorised conditions, and with forbidden images.Whose name was Micah.--Scripture does not deem it necessary to say anything more about him. His very name--here Micayeh-, "Who is like Jehovah "--seems to show that he had been trained by pious parents. The contraction Micah is adopted throughout the rest of the story.
