Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim New Living Translation There was a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim. English Standard Version There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. Berean Standard Bible Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim King James Bible And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. New King James Version Now there was a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. New American Standard Bible Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. NASB 1995 Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. NASB 1977 Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. Legacy Standard Bible Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. Amplified Bible There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. Christian Standard Bible There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah. Holman Christian Standard Bible There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah. American Standard Version And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And there was one man from the Mountain of Aphreim and his name was Mikah Brenton Septuagint Translation And there was a man of mount Ephraim, and his name was Michaias. Contemporary English Version Micah belonged to the Ephraim tribe and lived in the hill country. Douay-Rheims Bible There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim whose name was Michas, English Revised Version And there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. GOD'S WORD® Translation There was a man named Micah from the mountain region of Ephraim. Good News Translation There was once a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim. International Standard Version A man named Micah lived in the mountainous region of the territory of Ephraim. JPS Tanakh 1917 Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. Literal Standard Version And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Micah, Majority Standard Bible Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim New American Bible There was a man from the mountain region of Ephraim whose name was Micah. NET Bible There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country. New Revised Standard Version There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. New Heart English Bible There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. Webster's Bible Translation And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. World English Bible There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. Young's Literal Translation And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name is Micah, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Micah's Idolatry1Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim 2said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”… Cross References Judges 16:31 Then Samson's brothers and his father's family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years. Judges 17:2 said to his mother, "The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse--I have the silver here with me; I took it." Then his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the LORD!" Judges 18:2 So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. "Go and explore the land," they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night. Treasury of Scripture And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. A. Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. Joshua 15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim: Jump to Previous Country Ephraim E'phraim Hill Hill-Country Micah MountJump to Next Country Ephraim E'phraim Hill Hill-Country Micah MountJudges 17 1. Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother makes idols5. And he makes ornaments for them 7. He hires a Levite to be his priest (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. Verse 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.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Now there wasוַֽיְהִי־ (way·hî-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be a man אִ֥ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person from the hill country מֵֽהַר־ (mê·har-) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country of Ephraim אֶפְרָ֖יִם (’ep̄·rā·yim) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 669: Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory named וּשְׁמ֥וֹ (ū·šə·mōw) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 8034: A name Micah. מִיכָֽיְהוּ׃ (mî·ḵā·yə·hū) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 4319: Micaiah Links Judges 17:1 NIVJudges 17:1 NLT Judges 17:1 ESV Judges 17:1 NASB Judges 17:1 KJV Judges 17:1 BibleApps.com Judges 17:1 Biblia Paralela Judges 17:1 Chinese Bible Judges 17:1 French Bible Judges 17:1 Catholic Bible OT History: Judges 17:1 There was a man of the hill (Jd Judg. 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